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Furthermore, groundless drug tests would represent a step backward from constructive approaches to the problem of adolescent drug use. A 1995 Department of Health and Human Services study found that participation in extracurricular activities is strongly correlated with decreased drug use. The peak hours for juvenile crime are between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., when many students are released from school and have nowhere to go. If schools are worried about student drug use, they should make efforts to involve more students in extracurricular activities rather than lock them...
...taking this case, the Court should reaffirm that students are indeed “persons” under the law. They should not be subject to random, groundless and intrusive searches...
...this tragedy must not prevent us from examining the way America has treated the world, and the way the world sees us, in the post-Cold War era. Terrorists are filled with uncompromising, blind rage, but their hate does not spring groundless from the sand of the desert. As human beings, we wish to divorce ourselves from these actions by thinking that such a disgusting attack can only be the work of brainwashed religious fanatics. And though religion may play a part, there cannot be any doubt that these terrorists hated America—including everything, and everyone, American?...
...have called this theory “groundless and false,” and this denial, by a member of the Harvard administration, was taken as a smoking gun that the theory must be true. The thesis was reaffirmed, again without evidence, but with a mention of my failure to provide evidence to refute it—as though there was some epistemological principle that a theory, once posited without foundation, remains true until someone goes to the trouble to produce data to falsify...
Furthermore, the protestors’ request that they face “no academic ... repercussions” for their participation is groundless. Though PSLM stated that its members “are prepared for any repercussions,” their claim to deserve immunity simply because they are “acting to make [Harvard] a better university” brings into question their commitment. Part of the purpose of protest is to indicate depth of feeling and willingness to suffer for the cause; if the consequences of missed classes are more important than raising workers’ wages, then...