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During his talk, West emphasized the need for critical thinking and humanism in responding to the attacks on September 11 and the retaliation against Afghanistan. “The first casualty of war is truth, the second is dissent, and the third is civil liberty,” he said...
...definition of rape, however, was rejected. It wished to define rape as any act of sexual intercourse occurring without the expressed consent of both parties in order to shift the focus of investigations from the victim to the perpetrator; the Ad Board instead favored a definition relying on expressed dissent. Also, the Task Force had supported the formation of “peer-dispute subcommittees,” but the Ad Board rejected this attempt to include students in investigations...
There was some intra-room dispute when faced with what to do about the bat. “I was threatening to catch the bat and keep it and release it outside,” says the humanitarian Myers. Dissent came from LaFlamme and Holmgren who commented that he was ready to go after it with a lacrosse stick. But then one night . . . “I heard this rustling noise, so I was a little wary,” says LaFlamme. He and Myers proceeded to enter his room and search out the critter. The noise came from behind...
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