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...might seem like a last-resort criterion for a competitive NCAA sports team when no other positive adjectives are available, but not so for the Crimson...
Over the past several years, universities across the nation have added "sexual orientation" as another criterion for which discrimination is forbidden in a admissions, participation in school activities, employment, etc. But this long-needed change has resulted in hypocrisy being practiced every day at universities that have ROTC programs for finance their students' participation in another university's ROTC program. At these schools, resources, facilities and opportunities that are available to heterosexuals are denied to gay, lesbian and bisexual students in clear violation of these universities' non-discrimination policies...
...committee considered CUE guide ratings, personal experience and interviews, but "the real criterion was the sincerity of the nominations," Sayeed said...
When Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down by a rocket last Wednesday, previously moderate fighting between the powerful Tutsi minority and the president's Hutu loyalists escalated to tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...
McConnell and Laycock assert that Lemon's "primary-effect" criterion (the one used to outlaw the Kiryas Joel school) is too fuzzy and has been misused to deny religious Americans rights that are automatically granted to others. The Supreme Court has already overruled lower courts that used the primary- effect criterion to outlaw voluntary religious clubs in public schools, rental of public schools to churches on the same basis as other community groups, and help for blind and deaf students attending religious schools...