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...entire student body—events that would, in fact, be a good use of student money. The UC should evaluate a HoCo grant application the same as it would any other student group’s and should fund it if it meets FiCom’s standard criteria...
...Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed...
...daring move to reform Massachusetts’s flawed justice system, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently initiated a reevaluation of the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws. These statutes, which require a minimum sentence for crimes that fit certain criteria, eliminate judicial discretion, can result in grievous injustices in sentencing, and shift the prison system to focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. That’s not to say that mandatory minimum sentences are all bad—they have many benefits—but the rules as written are overly draconian...
Three years from now, how will we know if curricular reform is working? What signs will indicate that improved courses and advising are enriching the undergraduate academic experience? It is time to ask this question--to lay down criteria by which we can measure and move toward success—even though more hours of faculty debate will unfold before the last vote on the new system of General Education is tallied in a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Finance Committee Chair of the Undergraduate Council and Crimson editor Alexander N. Li ’08 sympathizes with the plight of the Mock Trial Team, but insists that the UC is at the end of its tether, thus putting Mock Trial outside of the direct criteria for UC grant funding...