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...arguments that apathetic youth would fail to use the day in the spirit in which it is intended. If students are to be made good citizens as well as scholars, they must be trusted to make the most of Inauguration Day--not denied the opportunity to watch and listen lest some of their classmates choose to waste their new-found freedom. A day to be written in the history books should not be spent writing in blue books instead...
...those of other proposed reforms. But fundamentally, the root of the problem in determining such a close election lies with faulty and inconsistent balloting, which no reform of polling hours or voting day will address. It's about time we shake the moths out of our antiquated voting procedure lest they produce yet another national farce...
...wounds were many for a woman who grew up in Alabama in the 1950s and '60s; who as a child was warned not to roll down the car windows lest Ku Klux Klan members throw acid in her face; who as a teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part...
...corn, or "cooler" tobacco that glows in the dark. Yet our faith in technological progress should not stop us from relentlessly challenging our motivations and our ends. What are the ends of more "productive" corn and "cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they're also technologically unsound. The only question that can really be conclusively answered when it comes to GM organisms is whether we should use them. Unequivocally...
...against all odds. The guys in final clubs aren't horned monsters concealing cloven hooves in their wing-tipped shoes. In section, on dates and in general, they're the kind of guys who are quick to share a laugh, help out a friend or hold open the door. Lest this column be relegated to the dusty collection of feminist anti-final club diatribes, I hasten to assure the reading public that some of my best friends are final club members...