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After a meeting with the Daily on Sept. 22, campus minority leaders say the newspaper refused to commit in writing to their demands, resulting in the boycott. Why boycott, as opposed to another form of protest? According to Aundrea Johnson, the speaker of the Black Student Union, “the Daily needs to recognize that without students of color supporting their paper, the paper becomes a worse paper than the way it is now.” And there is no doubt the protesters will succeed in that respect—by refusing to comment for articles...
...moment, Tse is wearing another unfashionable uniform: that of a convict in the Hong Kong penal system. A judge last week found him guiltyof "conspiracy to commit perversion of public justice," a fancy way of saying Tse tried to weasel out of an embarrassment and, in doing so, committed a crime...
...We’ve done a lot of walking around,” Rogus said. “We’re taking a lap before we commit to a location...
Meanwhile, another course is being offered on Idaho. I have relatively little knowledge about and no particular interest in Idaho—but the head of that course can guarantee two sections’ worth of teaching for me, if I choose to commit to the course immediately. If not, she will move on to other interested graduate students. Why would this professor hire a grad student with little interest in a state famous for potatoes? Because in this market, she’s happy to have anyone who can offer a firm commitment as opposed to a conditional offer...
...choices before me are either to commit to a course I have little interest in, or to surrender my guaranteed teaching slot there in favor of a possible position with the course I’m truly interested in. Unless I’m independently wealthy, it’s clear that there’s great pressure upon me to go with the former option rather than the latter—come Oct. 1, my Somerville slumlord looking for the rent was not going to be interested in a sob story about how kids today just don?...