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...that explicitly discriminate on any number of factors, such as sexual identity, or even ethnicity. From an ideological standpoint, the UC would be hard pressed to refuse money to all-male final clubs or fraternities wanting to organize their own milk and cookies receptions.The UC’s bylaws exist, in part, to ensure all students have equal opportunities to access their own money. At its heart, then, the problem with the AACF’s inflexible rule is that it exhibits a lack of respect for the right of students to their resources. Though some would argue that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Bye Bye Bylaws | 11/22/2005 | See Source »

...People are acting on beliefs that reinforce the patterns that exist,” he said...

Author: By Andrei P. Pesic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sociologist Talks Race, Violence | 11/22/2005 | See Source »

...black students admitted to the class of 2009 decided to enroll, accounting for 9.3 percent of the freshman class, the highest percentage since the journal started recording statistics in 1992. “In summarizing, Harvard had a very good year, and I think whatever problems that did exist as a result of the controversy are a thing of the past,” said Managing Editor of the journal Bruce Slater, referring to Cornel West’s 2002 departure and Stanford’s subsequent replacement of Harvard as the university with the highest black yield...

Author: By Rosa M. Norton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tops Black Student Yield | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle has, at least, offered up one epiphany: professors are homo sapiens, too. Just like their students back home, some will hook up, and many will get tanked. Indeed, a number are well on their way now, at 8 p.m. Score one for normalcy...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Peripheral Studies | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...viewpoint "Oil is Here to Stay," Peter Huber argues that sufficient supplies of oil exist to quench our thirst indefinitely and that we merely need the political will to extract them. His assessment implies that we should continue our addiction to using fossil fuels without fear of consequence. In fact, we are probably paying for that addiction right now in the form of global climate change. Evidence abounds that the earth is warming?melting ice caps, rising sea levels and perhaps even more intense hurricanes devastating our coasts. Most climate scientists believe the warming is directly related to rising concentrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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