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...second meeting in two months at which the Faculty was preoccupied with federal laws that could require professors to inform on students and colleagues, among other measures...
...politicians, whether in regard to this particular law, drug policy, or national issues in general; the essence of democracy is at stake. In such times, when the burden to do what is right falls upon the people because their representatives have failed, knowledgeable citizens have a duty to inform others...
...groups decided to work with local organizations such as the ADC and the ACLU to inform those preparing to register about the possible complications of the process and to ensure that they received sufficient opportunities to secure legal representation if necessary...
Besides being honest, the commission can better serve voters and candidates by taking on a higher profile role as a source of information during campaigns. The commission should inform voters of the logistics of voting, freeing up campaigns to take on more substantial platforms. Similarly, the commission should provide voters with basic candidate platform information. The commission could easily compile candidates’ stances on major campaign issues and publish them in some public domain accessible to all voters—the commission’s web site, for example. A single source of information on substantive issues could dramatically...
...Summers-New pairing was the Paulin case. According to several professors in the English department, New learned about Paulin’s remarks to Al-Ahram at an economics department cocktail party she attended with Summers (a former professor in the department) and contacted her colleagues to inform them of the poet’s political past. “[Summers and New] were involved from the start,” says Watson, “and there was confusion between alerting and intervening...