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Some have suggested that Democrats and Republicans would never enact the reforms because they would not want to hurt themselves. That is where grassroots pressure comes in. Citizens must make real election reform a central issue in the upcoming elections until fair campaigning and voting procedures are in place in all 50 states. If we show that we care enough, even the most stubborn of incumbents should fall into line. If incumbents have a choice between reelection and certain defeat, they will likely vote to let third parties...
...with freshman Beth Sabin bringing in an insurance run on her sacrifice fly to make it 4-2. The Crimson added six runs in the sixth inning, one of which came on Miller’s second home run of the afternoon. The late flurry was enough to enact the mercy rule, giving Harvard...
Council members said incorporating faculty members into the group will give it legitimacy and make it a more useful mechanism to enact change...
...Universities have the authority to enact effective policies and certainly have a strong interest to do so,” Rosenfeld says. “We’re talking about the education opportunities of half the students. [Sexual violence] impacts [women’s] learning opportunities...
...foremothers of American feminism would have been scandalized by the idea of drinking as a form of female self-assertion. A little over a century ago, the suffrage movement and the temperance crusade were largely one and the same. Many temperance activists wanted the vote, if only to enact prohibition; and suffragists applauded the temperance movement's attacks on taverns, in which axes were deployed to smash open kegs and let the beer drain away on the floor. The connection between the causes seemed obvious at the time: drunken men frittered away the family's paycheck and then went home...