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With a 76.6 percent majority vote, the Cherokee have issued a powerful message of intolerance and bigotry. The vote effectively denies freedmen legal rights as Native Americans and membership in their own community, despite their Cherokee lineage and identity...
...determine their citizenry. But their position is contradictory; self-determination is not just the right of the majority to exclude, but the right of a people to self-identify. If the freedmen identify as Cherokees and can stake a legitimate historical claim to that heritage, they should be allowed membership in the Cherokee Nation...
...hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked up between Harris and Klebold in Columbine on the other. Making the gunman calmer still is the fact that he has long since convinced himself that the world brought the carnage on itself. Because nobody is exempt from membership in that world, nobody's exempt from the line of fire either. "You forced me into a corner. The decision was yours," were among the most disturbing lines in the suicide videos that Cho left behind, but they may also have been the least original...
...perfect integration of the international and the American aesthetic. It was the Woodbridge Society’s annual Fiesta Mondiale, and it was completely sold-out. Originally created by five international students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become a dynamic interface between the domestic and international student populations. Previously content to introduce the unfamiliar Harvard experience to internationals, Woodbridge now proudly presents the international experience to Harvard, and the fruits of its growth...
...Students are initially considered for membership in Phi Beta Kappa based on their GPA after five semesters. The number of students nominated in each of the three broad areas—natural science, social science or humanities—is based on the percentage of students enrolled in each concentration within the class. Phi Beta Kappa sets up a quota for each of the fields in order to ensure parity across these categories. Those students with the highest GPAs are then nominated...