Word: letting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of recent debates about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia, heterosexism and their role in the military. Let's begin with a comparison, two differing views on the worth of sexual minorities. Harvard University holds that "it is unacceptable to harass or discriminate against students because of sexual orientation." The U.S. military and its campus manifestation, ROTC, contend that gays and lesbians present a security risk and such "sexual deviance" (their vocabulary) is actively discouraged. Individuals proven to have homosexual tendencies are either forced to resign or given medical discharges. Here there...
...says the manager, even retail grocers are not permitted to see the parts of the farm where slaughtering takes place. "They don't let you see the actual killing process. But that's just as well, I suppose," Perodeau says...
...fair amount of shots that went in. Harvard jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period. It added a score in the second and finally let the floodgates open in the third, drowning the Eagles in their brand new arena...
Appeasing Germany was wrong in 1938. Let's not make that mistake again...
Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...