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...membership on the Ad Board will give the Board a much more well-rounded view of the situations with which it is presented. It will help dispel false defenses as well as highlight legitimate concerns that only students, with their proximity to life at Harvard, might be able to discern. It will ensure that the Board is getting an accurate representation of the views and values that modern Harvard students have and can decide whether incidents are isolated or must be dealt with on a much grander scale...
...other crimes. In each instance, the daily and weekly police logs, which are provided to The Crimson and many others on campus, make clear that such an incident took place. Thus, contrary to what is implied by the editorial, The Crimson already has the ability to “discern trends in campus crimes” and other events...
Furthermore, it is critical to the safety of students that HUPD is more open and forthcoming. Shedding light on campus crime can only increase safety at Harvard. Gaining access to these records would allow the press and the public to discern trends in campus crime as well as the police handling of individual incidents. By keeping these records secret, HUPD impedes its own goal of creating a safer campus...
Since opposition to Bush’s irresponsible incursions abroad is characterized as weakness, the hawks, apparently, measure defense strength not by one’s ability to discern what is in America’s security interest, but by one’s willingness to send American men and women into combat with little regard to the likely consequences of doing so. And instead of exposing this farce, much of the Democratic Party has chosen to whore itself out to the angry white male contingent in the United States and imperil our national security in a wasteful...
...have followed the child abuse scandal would be able to discern in Law the vestiges of a college student who came across to many who knew him as the pious paragon of Catholic virtue...