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...Giving parents the ability to pick what they consider “desirable?? phenotypic traits has implications beyond family planning; as a society, we risk creating arbitrary divisions between those who have these traits and those who does not. Indeed, the entire practice smacks of eugenics programs, where humans are “bred” to represent what society considers to be desirable traits. Eugenics has become synonymous with ideas of racial purity; in Nazi Germany, programs in “racial hygiene” and the prevention of racial impurities were officially sanctioned...
...social stratification inherent to the proliferation of non-medical PGD should give us even more reason to pause. PGD is prohibitively expensive—the first trait-selected baby was going to cost $18,000. The fact that PGD treatment results in a prevalence of “desirable?? characteristics means that there would be visible and genetic differences between the financially well off and those whose parents could not afford PGD. If genetic makeup becomes dependent on wealth, then people’s looks will be an immediate indicator of their upbringing, and prejudices regarding someone?...
...goal of drumming up environmental excitement within the student body. The College would do well to emulate the Shut the Sash program’s structure: setting each house a number of quantifiable resource-saving goals, and rewarding those houses that meet their goals with regular—and desirable??prizes. This would raise the Green Cup’s cost, but would strengthen the incentive for student involvement...
...chapter. The decision to evict the 23 unsuitables might well have been made because they were liabilities in the recruiting process, as DZ’s national organization claims. But we sincerely doubt that it was for lack of willingness, rather than lack of the “desirable?? look. All the more damning are reports suggesting that thin, blond DZ sisters from the nearby Indiana University chapter were imported for recruiting events to replace the 23 evicted sisters. American universities should not tolerate this sort of flagrant and anachronistic behavior from any campus-affiliated organization...
...second place in our entirely unscientific poll (propelled, in part, by a Facebook campaign launched on his behalf by a 37-member group calling itself "Ought to Be Oxtoby." Still, a plurality of readers say Law School Dean Elena Kagan is the most likely—and most desirable??presidential candidate...