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...issues, on which it does not have the standing to speak, nor should it formally involve itself in controversial methods of protest such as hunger striking.While well intentioned, the Stand for Security Act took on a highly charged and inherently political issue on which there is no clear student consensus. The welfare of security guards does impact the greater Harvard community, but its direct impact on undergraduates is negligible. In choosing to involve itself in what amounts to a wage dispute between one of the University’s contractors and their employees, the UC marginalized itself and it opened...
Keating said that the consensus among students was that Vick had been able to do so by taking advantage of a broken fire door, but Acting House Master Lee Gehrke wrote in an e-mail statement that house officials are not sure how Vick was able to enter the room...
...also requires that the AED be available in a reasonable amount of time and be within reach of the athletes. "An AED only answers half of the problem if is locked away in the nurse's office," says Dr. Jonathan Drezner, co-chair of the Inter-Association Task Force Consensus Statement. "I see cases all the time where an athlete collapses and the school doesn't know where...
...status as a role model is in doubt. "We thought we had developed the ability to democratically resolve our issues," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute, a pro-democracy group in Istanbul. "We can't say that now. A society that cannot reach a consensus on its own has a serious problem." Mark Parris, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, echoes his concern, warning that for Turkish democracy the stakes "could not be higher. We're heading into a highly polarizing and divisive campaign in which the outcome...
...Despite the growing consensus calling for change, however, Beijing continues to make enforcement of the policy one of the two main yardsticks by which the performance of local bureaucrats - and hence their prospects for advancement - are judged. (The other is tax collection.) It is this pressure from above to comply with population quotas that prompts local officials to adopt measures such as forced abortion (sometimes heart-rendingly late in term), forced sterilization and the like, says Nicolas Becquelin of New York-based Human Rights in China...