Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at the American Red Cross questionnaire shows us that there are no questions asking about unprotected sexual encounters. This question, it would seem, is much more relevant to donor screening than questions about same-sex sexual encounters. They are more relevant because the question about same-sex encounters lump all homosexual contact in a high risk category. It ignores the fact that mutual masturbation between two men is of a much lower risk category than unprotected heterosexual intercourse. How can the CDC and the American Red Cross justify their blatant submission to the homophobic panic of the heterosexual American...
...runner up was professor Emeritus Hilton A. Salhanik, from the School of Public Health. His salary was only $42,575, but upon assuming emeritus status, Salhanik received a lump sum payment...
...second issue is how to distribute it. As the grandson of a slave, I naturally favor dividing it into lump sums and giving them to my generation of the slaves' descendants--but that would be too much like hitting the lottery. So here's another idea. Use the money to uplift those who have been most hurt not only by the legacy of slavery but by existing discrimination and poverty: the urban and rural black poor. Put the money into a fund--call it the New Freedmen's Bureau--to finance the construction of schools, housing, transportation grids, factories...
Peninsula editor Bradley L. Whitman '98 agrees. "It does seem that there is a double standard where it's okay to try and suppress the opinions of conservatives and infringe on their rights of free speech," he says. "Calling us Nazis or fascists allows them to simply lump our views into a category where we can't be taken seriously...
...could take the excesses from the free cash account and provide a one time major kick-in to housing," he said at the meeting. "We can lump-load...