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...your fellow students to fund a private party. If you and your suitemates would like to throw a party inviting only your 100 closest friends, you have the right to do so—on your own dime. As it stands, there is no shortage of demand to obtain grants from the the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) “party fund.” Troublingly, anecdotal reports of widespread abuse indicate that this might not be the best measure of their success. Hosts failing to publicize their parties, restricting their guest lists, and misrepresenting themselves to obtain...
...time of the election, there will have been another big development in the city's life. FEMA is expected to issue its advisory floodplain maps in March. Those will identify the most flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says...
...ruling’s “vague wording,” the president of College Media Advisers, Inc., Lance Speere, said. College Media Advisers is an organization that works with student newspapers to ensure that the papers are aware of their rights. Specifically, it urges college newspapers to obtain acknowledgement from school administrators that the newspaper represents a public forum that is afforded constitutional protection, Speere said. The ruling could possibly have ramifications for other forms of student expression, such as literary magazines and art exhibits, which are not always recognized as public forums, Speere said. GSU Press Affairs...
Furthermore, it is not such a bad thing that freshmen seeking to obtain condoms on the University’s dime are often forced to interact with a human being in UHS or Room 13 to get the goods. A person who is embarrassed to be observed obtaining condoms should think twice before doing the deed...
...claim that the presence of condoms in freshman dorms will actively reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases is a weak one. Students who are responsible enough to have safe sex have enough foresight to obtain condoms from UHS or another source before things get too hot and heavy. In a society where sex is already king, there is no need for the UC to further encourage the culture...