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...with honorariums. Ethics in government should be a bipartisan concern, not merely the responsibility of the Bush Administration. If the White House has fallen short of the standards it set during its much ballyhooed "ethics week," so too has the Democratic Congress been unwilling to judge itself by the criteria it sets for others...
...take the expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional definitions of field, approach or criteria; and to resist the inertia that works to ensure relative homogeneity among faculty and students...
...reasoning seems strange. What criteria, one wonders, are used to categorize Core courses as "freshman-sophomore" courses? Level of difficulty, perhaps? Number of required readings? And isn't the Core supposed to be a section of the curriculum that permits any student to take any course offered, regardless of year? That priority seems to have gotten lost somewhere...
Unfortunately, no clear criteria exist for determining exactly who can or cannot rightfully claim ignorance. Until the government can insure that all citizens are sufficiently educated about sex, women should be allowed to choose an abortion, and the government should encourage sexual restraint. If the government ever attains its goal of ensuring adequate sex education, the courts ought to outlaw abortion, except in cases of rape and health of the mother...
...choose performers who have made an impressive and lasting contribution to the world of entertainment," said Sharon Dwyang '91, publicity manager for the Pudding Theatricals. "We believe that both fulfill the criteria admirably...