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...itself. As it stands, the council’s bylaws limit it to allocating funds on a semester-by-semester basis; the council cannot set aside money to be saved for future semesters for fear of infringing on the autonomy of subsequent councils. But while there is logic in wanting to allow for the greatest possible council flexibility, this system precludes the UC from allocating funds for a springtime concert in the fall—at a time when they could begin placing bids on artists and working with the necessary College and city officials to ensure a smoothly planned...
Just as the Harvard Corporation announced the long-awaited divestment from PetroChina, a new student group, the Burma Action Movement (BAM), is trying their luck with the divestment approach. Their logic echoes that of the recently-disbanded Senior Gift Plus. The group claims that Harvard’s investment in Unocal, an oil and gas company, is unethical and hypocritical. By conducting business in Burma, BAM argues, Unocal contributes to the human rights violations of the Burmese junta, which includes systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and the stifling of political dissent. Thus, Harvard is guilty by association...
Before beginning a new career, it is important to get on-the-job training. That was the logic behind Justin Haan ’05’s Friday night last weekend...
...comment prompted Abbot to question Gingrich on his logic, asking if America was any safer after pre-emptively attacking Iraq...
...release of that "well-known" political prisoner. The paper called on its readers "to raise our voices in defense of the human rights and freedom of those whose only 'fault' is to struggle against the genocide unleashed by U.S. authorities against the native population." Translation: in the looking-glass logic of superpower relations, Peltier, an American Indian serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents, is to Soviet propagandists what dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov is to the U.S., a symbol of flagrant disregard for human rights...