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...sole religious component is a requirement that members believe in a single God, to some outsiders the Masonic fondness for ritual looks very much like religious practice. A UGL booklet explains that "it is true that candidates have to roll up their trouser legs during the three ceremonies [for] membership ... [T]aken out of context, this can seem amusing, but ... it has a symbolic meaning...
...Masons, he says. "Well, I'm a magistrate, but there's no form that says so because I wasn't when I joined." Tory M.P. Charles Wardle has taken up the Masonic issue and recently introduced a bill requiring anyone elected to public office to register their membership in any secret society. Wardle dismisses the Masons' argument that they are not a secret society. "They are required to keep the membership secret, even if they are at liberty to divulge their own," he says...
...allegations were given renewed life with the revelation last October that Alain Bartoli, a Nice police officer and a Freemason, had used a law-enforcement database to conduct extensive background searches on several people. Bartoli has admitted using classified police files only to check up on candidates for membership in his local lodge, but among those he targeted for searches were President Jacques Chirac and De Montgolfier himself...
...recent selection of representatives to the Katz Committee on Harvard's wage structure highlighted the potential of the Undergraduate Council to serve as an effective voice for student interests on campus. Unfortunately, it also outlined the barriers the council has yet to overcome. The membership of the council's Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which nominated candidates for the Katz Committee, was not available online. The votes were conducted by secret ballot. And the 25-5 council-wide vote to confirm the selections was unrecorded-so students won't necessarily know whether their representatives were among the five dissenters...
Some measures of accountability would be relatively simple to implement. The membership of SAC and the council's other committees is public and available for the asking. Listing the members of council committees on the council's website would be an easy step, and one that would help students communicate their views to the members of the relevant council committees. Not all students want to make their views known through a campus-wide e-mail list...