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...true that Harvard College is not a democracy. This is not a lament or a boast, but a fact that must inform the decisions and attitudes of both undergraduates and administrators. As students, we must understand that improvements in our lives can come only through cooperation and reasoned persuasion. Since undergraduates occupy at best a marginal role in the decision-making process, the administration must welcome and seriously consider student reactions to policy changes. Dean Lewis' response to this petition does not respect the mutual obligations necessary for cooperation between students and administrators...
...rarely performed and then often only to save a woman's life or prevent severe health risks, have become the picture of an abortion procedure in many American's minds thanks to vivid, if not technically accurate, descriptions of the procedure. Such gross-out tactics do not help to inform a debate upon which women's lives, livelihoods and freedoms depend. The avoidance-shuffle that candidates have been performing around the issue has allowed anti-abortionists to slowly chip away at women's reproductive freedoms unnoticed by the mainstream public...
...Harvard. Youth at Harvard Against Handgun Violence, a new group started by about 15 undergraduates, is beginning to spread the word around campus. Our first meeting, on February 15, featured Mass. State Rep. Cheryl Jacques (D-, our state's leading proponent of gun control. We are now working to inform other students about gun control through lectures, debates and petition drives. We hope that, once faced with the facts about gun violence in America, Harvard students will feel compelled to act on this important issue. Once we gain support on campus, we hope to work with state and national organizations...
...source said the universities would like to try out the offerings on alumni. The experience could inform the development of similar resources for their undergraduates, the administrator said...
Within the next week-and-a-half, participants at the meeting agreed to try to inform Harvard students about the case, and about allegations of police brutality and racial profiling...