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Fear of Islamic culture is encapsulated also in the Europe-wide debate over the veil. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has promised to push ahead with a ban on the full veil, and Belgium has become the first European nation to hold a successful vote on the subject. A concerted effort has been made to tie the debate over Islamic dress to women’s rights within Muslim society. Politicians repeatedly invoke the need to “liberate women,” while some left-wing members of parliament have gone so far as to label the burqa...
...Leaning Committee, chaired by Human Rights Professor Jennifer Leaning, ruled that the office should employ two and a half full-time staff members, establish a 24-hour crisis line, and coordinate events signifying commitment to education and prevention work on campus...
...from the Ninth Symphony – Beethoven: “O friends, no more these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full...
Many proponents of banning full veils in public places argue for it as a means of liberating women who currently wear them, believing they suffer under an oppressive culture. However, this argument is invalid on several grounds. First, it assumes that women who wear the burqa are uniformly forced to do so, which is simply untrue. Like all personal choices, women decide to don this attire for many reasons—some good and some bad, some based on coercion and some on freedom. To tar all burqas with the brush of oppression is condescending and inaccurate. Furthermore...
Food: Much like The Rock Café, Chauhaus offers a typical selection of grill items and sandwiches along with soups and full salad bar. Drinks include juices, Starbucks Coffee, and fancier espresso-based concoctions. The Greenhouse may be the gold standard in selection amongst BoardPlus-accepting restaurants, but Chauhaus still offers a pretty broad subset of the Greenhouse’s menu...