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This is a law protecting the workers. If it did not exist, construction companies could submit lower bids on projects by cutting their employees' wages. Construction costs, except for labor, are fixed, so the only way to cut overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
...referendum says "there shall be no further generation of electric power by commerical nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth by means which result in the production of nuclear waste." Although the question covers all nuclear plants, the only ones that exist now are obsolete and dangerous; Question 4 protects the people of Massachusetts from this threat. If and when new technology is devised to ensure the safety of nuclear power generation, the citizens can consider overturning this referendum; until then, this is the safest...
...peak efficiency. Rowe ran at reduced efficiency for more than three years recently due to equipment failures, and Pilgrim, which has never operated at a level better than 50 percent of capacity since it opened in 1972, has been closed for repairs since 1986. Much more efficient alternatives exist and are ready to take up the slack of closing these plants according to energy conservation groups...
...verdict against the K.K.K. lately. In a case also handled by Dees, an Alabama jury last year awarded $7 million to the late Beulah Mae Donald, whose son Michael was lynched in 1981. Jubilant last week, Dees nevertheless insisted he believes "the Klan has a right to exist," if not to harass. Adds Dees: "This is not just an attempt to put the Klan out of business." Maybe not, but at this pace, he is not going to leave them with the price of a sheet...
...policy preventing political expression at athletic events does indeed exist, as an institution dedicated to the values of openness and free inquiry, should strive to end all censorship, whether it be in academic or athletic arenas. We call on the administration to take swift public action on this issue. Ted Constan '89 Treasurer, CLUH Joshua Gerstein '92 Member, CLUH Neil Segall '90 President, CLUH