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Crimson freshman point guard Eliot Prasse-Freeman will have to contend with another freshman guard in the Tiger's Spencer Gloger...
...contend that human life is valuable, that we ought to preserve it and that people ought to be punished for taking it or maltreating it, then we cannot and must not allow our states or our federal government to employ the death penalty. We must tell all candidates for public office that, though we must punish our criminals, we cannot make our punishment into vengeance, for then we begin to destroy our laws and ourselves. We have too often seen in the far too recent past the disastrous effects of a culture that breeds violence and death...
...crux of the case," says White, "is whether the police told Diallo to stop." If they didn't warn him, or identify themselves, White says, they have little in the way of defense. Attorneys for the policemen contend, without irony, that each of the plainclothes officers was wearing his police medallion around his neck - a detail the police evidently expected Diallo to process correctly at the same instant that they were mistaking Diallo's wallet for a weapon...
...Harvard's Ivy League counterpart, Brown University, many student group leaders contend that the school is indeed "hiding" its speech code--in plain sight...
Though Columbia likely won't contend for the Ivy title, the Lions have proven themselves capable of pulling off an upset at any time...