Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rape, admitted that there is no way that his department could guarantee that the police could prevent a similar occurence in the future. Such arguments of feasibility, coupled with the fact that women are under similar restrictions in general society, are no excuse for Harvard's failure to ensure equal freedom for all of its members...
Women agreeing to enroll or take up employment here clearly expect that the right to freedom of movement will be guaranteed. It would be absurd to suggest that Harvard's committment to equal treatment for both sexes somehow doesn't include this basic right...
...University does not see fit to classify an organization that arbitrarily excludes women as being sufficiently discriminatory; it is blatantly hypocritical for the administration to trumpet claims of equal treatment for both sexes while failing to combat obvious violations of such to the greatest extent of its abilities...
Condoms may have proliferated lately, but not all of them are created equal. So says the March issue of Consumer Reports. Investigators checked 40 brands and 16,000 individual condoms for leakage and strength. When the prophylactics were filled with ten ounces of water, the test used by the U.S. Government, all brands managed to pass. But researchers got different results when they filled condoms with several quarts of air, the standard required by such countries as Denmark and Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test...
...They offer theories and rhetoric, but we offer $25,200 for college," says Lieut. Colonel John Cullen, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation...