Word: non
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...forward urging rescission. Never mind that constituents, including cadets, have been writing their representatives in protest since the bill's passage. Never mind that the bill's sponsors never once consulted the BGLTSA in the writing process and yet claimed to have taken each group's concerns into consideration. Non-discrimination issues aside, many students remain uncomfortable with the idea of an increased military presence on campus in general. By endorsing the bill and framing opposition to it as a "gay issue" alone, the council has yet to even consider these students' concerns...
...have gone to great lengths to convince themselves they are not discriminatory--the bill goes so far as to even denounce the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At the same time, the council apparently cannot grasp how the bill directly violates its own principles of non-discrimination and the Harvard wide policies that protect students of all minority status. By recommending that ROTC have recruiting privileges through the Office of Career Services, the bill endorses the practice of discriminatory recruiting on-campus. By recommending that Harvard adopt administrative oversight with the ROTC alumni fund, the bill...
...short, the bill is homophobic. A council that endorses homophobic legislation is a homophobic council. A homophobic council cannot claim to represent Harvard's LGBT community or the scores of students on this campus who thankfully take non-discrimination a lot more seriously than their "elected" leaders...
Applying his standards for democratic success, Wilson reserved little hope for the future of democracy in non-English speaking nations and in Russia and China. He said he doubts that democracy will survive in many newly democratic countries and does not believe Russia or China will ever acquire true democracies...
Applying his standards for democratic success, Wilson reserved little hope for the future of democracy in non-English speaking nations and in Russia and China...