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...editorial writer Brian J. Buldoc ’10’s opinion piece supporting lifting the ban spots the main obstacle: among faculty members, antipathy for the military is concomitant to the ban. In talks with Harvard students and graduates in last winter, I found that the majority favor lifting the ban on ROTC; they, and I, feel that the ban makes a negative statement about those in the military now, stigmatizing young officers for the sake of trying to combat the stigma that faces gay military personnel...
...listers and Harvard as a whole. In an article published by The Crimson in the summer of 2002, 76 percent of a sample of the incoming Z-list class had parents who attended Harvard. Although most students chide the College for allowing a practice that seems to unfairly favor those of more privileged backgrounds, I am unperturbed. The Z-list is necessary as an institutional fixture that facilitates progressivism at Harvard...
...might argue that this is in the name of academia and that nobody gets hurt when people learn more. Yet, in the age where there are pills available for everything, from weight loss to mood elevation, it seems that people are all too willing to forgo hard work in favor of instant gratification. Your straight As might be as impressive as 762 home runs, but by cheating the hard work, you will feel like a washed-up, free-agent, no-respect Barry Bonds...
...Islamification—even though only an estimated 1,900 women wear the full veil in France out of six million Muslims. Polls indicate that 70 percent of the French public supports a ban on the burqa, even though a fraction of this number would be in favor of outlawing similar expressions of faith from other religions such as crosses and yarmulkes...
However, the second amendment proposal stipulating that all Executive Board members—not just those who switch districts—must run for re-election every fall failed with 25 votes in favor and 25 against. Constitutional amendments must pass with a three-fourths vote of the entire Council and no abstentions are allowed, said Rules Committee Chair Luis A. Martinez...