Word: exempt
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Unless the clubs present new and compelling reasons why they should be exempt from the University's anti-discrimination policy, the committee will likely vote to terminate the connections, student members of the CCI said after last night's council meeting...
...trying to lead the Clubs to accepting women. The Committee acts under the assumption that no College group may, discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical disability. Nonetheless, we grant some groups, such as the Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Rugby Club, exemptions from part of the clause. It could be that social clubs will be able to show us reasons to exempt them. I take our committment to non-discrimination seriously, however, and am not as inclined as Mr. Patullo to dismiss the Clubs as not central to the College...
...second case, it would be absurd to exempt a section of the student body--from the drive to return meaning to the words "with honor...
Fortunately, the question is not an overly difficult one. Academics must not be considered a haven from the system, mystically exempt from the forces of politics, economics and society. Harvard is a shiny cog, but it is a cog nonetheless. If it acts unjustly, it is hypocritical and foolish to defend it on grounds of some superior, ubermensch morality...
...Game itself will not be exempt from protest's shadows, as a group of Harvard law students and Harvard support staff participating in the United Auto Workers union organizing drive are each planning surprises for the contest. The activists will sell "Bartbusters" T-shirts and other pro-union goodies in an attempt to increase' student and alumni awareness of the conflict, organizers said...