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...procurement of work visas and then moved on to consider the Teaching Hotline Act. Sponsored by both Petersen and Sundquist and representing one of their primary campaign promises, the act looks to establish a means of allowing students to alert professors of poor TF performance. It passed with unanimous consent. Students will be able to contact the TF hotline by sending e-mails to tf@hcs.harvard.edu. Anonymity is guaranteed; a student board bound by a confidentiality agreement is charged with collecting input for presentation to the course professor. “[The TF hotline] is one of our central messages that...
...rich or famous, can flourish. We assume fundamental administrative competence, honesty in matters great and small, and a rightly regulated ambition as essential to the job, but beyond these, we crave a president whom we can both trust and admire and to whose leadership among us we willingly consent...
...must depend upon the Governing Boards to get it right. This means most especially that the Overseers must do more than apply their customary rubber stamp. They above all must remember that they have a moral duty to assay the intangible qualities essential to an effective presidency. Pro forma consent contributes to the problem and not the solution...
...toddler walk in on them knows that that's not true. Or a teenager who's had a parent walk in--they stop pretty quickly." Still, even advocates concede it's hard to set a time frame in which sex must cease after consent is taken back. "I don't know where that bright line is," says Scott Berkowitz of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network. "We'll leave that to juries to decide what's reasonable in each case...
...initial de-flowering of the woman as the real harm," unanimously ordered a new trial, essentially stating that how fast was not the issue, nor was whether the accuser had said no during intercourse. In Maryland, rape is determined at the beginning of the sex act, and therefore consent is officially given at that point. The court wrote, "It was the act of penetration that was the essence of the crime of rape; after this initial infringement upon the responsible male's interest in a woman's sexual and reproductive functions, any further injury was considered to be less consequential...