Word: harvestable
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...time for new challenges, says Unruhe, a retired high school teacher who is running on behalf of the 90,000 seniors who live in Ventura and the immigrants who harvest its crops. On the flashpoint issue of immigration, Unruhe supports stricter legislation and enforcement, but not the extreme sanctions his opponent proposes, which include deprivation of education and health benefits for children. Unruhe may be tilting at Ventura windmills, but he is undaunted by the challenge...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We should have the right to harvest the timber. We should have never been stopped by environmental issues ... Our mills should not have been shut down and our economic position sent to utter chaos...
Last week's protests against the erection of a sukkah in the courtyard of Dunster House highlight the controversial nature and uncertain future of religion in the houses. The sukkah, which functions as an outdoor house used by Jews to celebrate their harvest holiday, was put up by Dunster's Allston Burr Senior Tutor Suzi Naiburg and numerous interested students. Dissent emerged on two separate fronts: one, the refusal of Dunster Superintendent Joseph O'Connor to allow residents to play volleyball on the lawn, and two, the use of the Sukkah to celebrate a Harvest Moon Festival combining the Jewish...
Another group of students raised a more serious objection. They didn't mind the sukkah per se, but they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...
Second, religious diversity must mean that we explore different traditions on their own terms, in their own settings. Common threads are always fascinating, but cannot be the basis for learning about a tradition. A sukkah is fine as an authentically Jewish symbol; as a multicultural harvest hut, it is questionable at best...