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What I find most disturbing, however, is Weaver’s all-too-common conflation of a moral stance against homosexual acts with the “blind ignorance” of “knee-jerk” homophobia...
...homophobic because they are products of their environment. They likely grew up in a culture where it was an accepted fact for homosexuals to be discriminated against. Perhaps they were told that the God they worship believed homosexuality was sinful. For these Americans, homophobia just became another habit, another knee-jerk reaction...
...Undergraduate Council needs to be given an opportunity to respond to what was clearly a knee-jerk decision. It previously presented the Commission with a convincing, well argued case to extend party hours. But the impending May 27 hearing that is planned for discussion of this policy change does not allow adequate time for the Council prepare a response—falling right after finals when many students will have already departed for the summer. The University should work with the city to move the hearing to the fall so that the Council can present a balanced case. The University...
...first unlucky outdoorsman to have to resort to a quickie self-amputation. In 1993 Bill Jeracki cut off one of his legs after becoming trapped under a boulder in Colorado during a fishing trip. "I cut through the knee joint like you separate your chicken," he says. "It's all soft tissue. It took maybe 15 or 30 minutes." But Jeracki is stunned that Ralston endured days of pain. Jeracki didn't expect to make it through the night; he waited only three hours before slicing himself...
Hendricks, who has not played since the Yale series in mid-April while recovering from surgery to remove a bone chip from his knee, sat in the dugout yesterday in his uniform but no cleats. If Hendricks were in the lineup, Dukovich—who had an RBI single off Pauly along with his ninth-inning walk—would have been available on the bench in addition to Herrmann when Walsh needed a ninth-inning miracle...