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...based on coercion and some on freedom. To tar all burqas with the brush of oppression is condescending and inaccurate. Furthermore, the law itself is clearly coercive. It places specific limits on how women may dress, and enforces these restrictions with the power of the state. The plan to free women from private mandates enforcing one set of clothing standards with a public mandate enforcing the opposite set is logically inconsistent. Although the proposed bill would level substantially greater penalties on those who force other people to wear the burqa, it still penalizes women who themselves elect to wear...
There’s probably nothing better than festivities on a beautiful day. With delicious food, live music, and free t-shirts, Eliot House students emerged yesterday from working and studying to celebrate the legacy of their House Masters...
...By’s roster as suggested might slow down the dining process. However, the assumption that all Fly-By patrons want a quick lunch is largely false anyway. Often, students go to Fly-By simply because the location or times are convenient. Fly-By is the only free lunch option available to upperclassmen near the Science Center. It is also the only viable option near the Yard for students who must eat before a 12 p.m. class. No River House dining halls are open at 11:30 a.m. Therefore, HUDS should certainly keep fast options available, but speed-eating...
...romanticized argument in favor of airing an offensive episode might point to the fact that people associated with the creators of the show were under threat, or that the possibility of dying for being a humorist is unfair. But these people miss the fact that the very exercise of free speech meets with danger—the danger that one will be oppressed by some influence, whether vigilante violence or state power. The moment when we are unwilling to protect the rights of our fellow because of possible violence against him or those around him, we sacrifice free speech...
Similarly, the contention that humor’s right to free speech should not be protected but that news or some purely informational medium should enjoy that special protection is an unnecessary and specious privileging of one form of expression over another. Rights are indiscriminate and should not be subject to the weak claim that the work of a Pryor, Carlin, Wilde, or Maher is a lower form of speech than journalism. Much like other types of expression, there is valuable humor and humor that is less so—but all of it deserves to be protected...