Word: dorme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewis says that his image of the house system, as outlined by President A. Lawrence Lowell in the 1930s, is that each dorm should be reflective of a cross-section of student life...
These potentials should not be removed, but tolerated. A move to ban all elements of fire in student dorm rooms would rightly be considered authoritarian. We deal with many dangers each day because they allow for a better end. For example, despite the high rate of automobile accidents, many of us choose to drive cars for their speed and convenience. On the other hand, one could argue that we don't permit absolute freedom. For instance, we require automobile drivers to obey speed limits. We control for excess danger to society while permitting the maximum freedom to the individual...
...fire safety precaution to outweigh First Amendment freedoms with the new menorah ban. Precautions must certainly be taken as intermediate steps between an outright ban and absolute laissez faire. But the current policy is hypocritical with respect to the legal use of other potential fire starters in the dorm rooms. The College is wrong to dictate the terms on which Jewish students may light their menorahs. It's time for the College to treat us as adults. Lewis should reverse...
...simply won't work. Hot pots and coffee makers and all non-religious candles are already banned in dorm rooms, to almost no effect. The safety precautions proposed in the editorial should be implemented instead. They will be at least as effective as simply prohibiting menorahs...
...evidence has shown one thing: cluttered dorm rooms are firetraps, and menorahs present a clear and present danger to life and limb. Just like freedom of speech, religious freedom must step aside when obvious threats to personal safety arise...