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When the BGLTSA applied for membership of the Foundation, several members of student groups protested the application on the grounds that the BGLTSA promotes a deviant lifestyle. While it is deplorable that groups aimed at the value of diversity would choose to criticize the BGLTSA in this way, it is similarly deplorable that the BGLTSA has hijacked Pinkett Smith’s speech to further its own skewed agenda...
...leading organizations that focus solely on women’s issues. It is critical that the current leadership of larger political organizations such as the Dems and the UC conduct a critical evaluation of female members who rise to leadership in their groups in order to structure their membership and election processes with increased gender sensitivity. For example, campus groups’ elections often include back-door politicking and schmoozing which is much more likely to be pursued by men as it is a remnant of smoke-filled rooms. Additionally, campus leaders must more effectively reach out to female guest...
...events” and challenge the norms of male leadership. Young members of organizations must encourage the leadership to engage in substantive discussion regarding inherent gender biases within each campus group’s organizational structure. More explicitly, while the burden is on campus leaders both to better structure membership and elections and to more effectively reach out to young women through outreach initiatives, women undergraduates also must step up to the plate—more women must run for offices in these organizations. As Women’s History Month commences, it is important for undergraduate women to participate...
...never heard of it are in favor. In France, the yes score in polls has fallen from 69% to 61% over the past four months. Treaty supporters across the political spectrum believe they're losing support because voters wrongly think the referendum is linked to Turkish E.U. membership (widely opposed in France) or officially surrenders social protections to the free market (as some politicians complain). Others may simply want to punish Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac for unpopular domestic policies like cutting civil-service jobs and trimming social benefits. The Dutch are facing a similarly volatile poll. Most people...
...political mobilization and has significantly increased union members' voter turnout. But the Democratic presidential candidates labor backed have twice been defeated in that time, and Republican majorities have grown in Congress as well. The only answer to regaining influence, Stern and other union leaders contend, is to increase union membership, which has continued to decline under Sweeney...