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Their platform is one of the most expansive I have seen in my four years here, as it pushes the council to include the interests of a wider range of students—including low-income students (free laundry privileges and minimum printing budgets), female students (the establishment of a women’s center) and student group leaders (centralized information about reserving space on and off campus). Moreover, it challenges the university to push for staff diversity, not only in ethnicity and gender, but also in ideology, to truly challenge the way students think about the world...
Then, even more audacity. He not only claimed his mandate. He defined it right on the spot. Seizing the third rail of American politics, he promised to reform Social Security with, at minimum, partial privatization. He then added his intention to radically redo the tax code--which includes entertaining such ideas as entirely abolishing the Internal Revenue Service by going to a national sales tax. You cannot get more radical than that. His subsidiary aims, earthshaking in any other context but almost minor in this one, are kneecapping the lawsuit industry with serious tort reform and installing a conservative judiciary...
...modern undergraduate life with a contiguous and balanced campus; within reach is the elimination of weepy, freshly assigned first-year blocking groups sulking their way to Annenberg to grudgingly claim their Quad House t-shirts. Accordingly, we’re glad to see that plans currently include a minimum of two to three Houses built across the river—a replacement for the Quad Houses—with a potential five more to be built in the distant future...
...varies—depends on prior record, whether he pleads guilty or not,” LaGrassa said. “If he were to plea out, that [minimum] can be broken down...
Although possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within a school zone carries a minimum mandatory sentence of two years, Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Emily J. LaGrassa said sentences differ on a case-by-case basis...