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...Membership in HRCF is open to students of all faiths, however...
...mail said that the College’s non-discrimination policy covers only membership, not leadership. It also asked group members for feedback, thoughts and prayers...
...College and the council are right to be concerned that HRCF’s requirement is discriminatory and that, as such, the group must change it or else lose its funding and recognition. While, as HRCF points out, the relevant College rules only explicitly mandate non-discrimination in membership, as opposed to leadership, HRCF is out of line with the principles of the College’s guidelines. That HRCF may technically be within the rules only highlights the need for the College to revise those rules to ensure that groups cannot have discriminatory criteria for any positions...
...surprise, then, that Rushing suffered a resounding 118-17 defeat, garnering six less votes than even snowball’s-chance Republican candidate Bradley H. Jones Jr. With the notable exceptions of the courageous representatives who voted to end Finneran’s tenure, the rank-and-file membership showed the same cowardice that has kept Finneran in office for three previous terms as speaker. When a referendum instructing representatives to vote against Finneran for speaker appeared on the ballot in 18 districts last year, all 18 passed it—but only three of those representatives voted against...
...although the phrase was not then in vogue) were frequently frustrated at the peace conference by Europeans interested mainly in land grabs. After he returned from Paris, writes Michael Mandelbaum in his recent book, The Ideas That Conquered the World, Wilson's negotiations with those Senators who thought that membership in the League of Nations would endanger American independence were "a masterpiece of political incompetence." Among the more hard-nosed realist practitioners of American statecraft--the sort of folk who have found a natural home in the Bush Administration--it has long been fashionable to deride Wilson as a fuzzy...