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...they have long since become accustomed to this President's scandals. The public has been presented by the media with a heavy rotation of Bill Clinton scandals since the New Hampshire primary of 1992. That amounts to over five years of non-stop scandal. Since scandals have become a norm, rather than a deviation, I would venture to say that the only thing that would worry the public would be the sudden disappearance of scandals. The average Joe figures that "those bastards in Washington are gonna be up to something rotten," so he may as well know what...
Perhaps. Especially when people are afraid to challenge the campus P.C. norm...
Undergraduate Council member Steven Mitby challenged this norm and the result is telling. The day after Mitby spoke against a bill urging the University to add "transgendered" to its non-discrimination policy, he found a threatening note complete with a hand-written swastika taped to his dorm room door...
...last year by the parents of a young woman named Saima Waheed. They disapproved of her choice of husband and w anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan. The judges ruled that Saima's marriage was valid a nd did not violate Islamic doctrine. What the split on was whether the law permits women to make their own choices in marriage. One of the three judges said the marriage should be annulled. Another said...
Perhaps it is true that any university which values excellence is bound to produce a competitive atmosphere. Here at Harvard, the stakes are higher than the norm, and the competitors know it. However, no one seems to be concerned with the aftermath of our exciting little rat race. The reality of that aftermath is that we live in a place where even a snowball fight turns into a battle for supremacy. Many of our peers conciously sabotage the success of others even when it garners no gain for themselves. Harvard claims to produce the leaders of tomorrow...