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...vast majority of states, women seeking emergency contraception must first set up an appointment and make a trip to the doctor’s office to obtain the necessary prescription. But many doctors are unavailable to write prescriptions on weekends and some pharmacies do not carry the drug. Since people tend to be more sexually active during weekends and holidays when doctors’ offices are closed, this can be a significant problem. The morning-after pill must be taken within a narrow window of time to be effective—ideally within 24 hours after intercourse. By the time...
Critics—employing the same hackneyed argument they use for opposing increased access to abortion—argue that making the pill easier to obtain will cause it to be abused as regular contraception. “You will have people...falling back on this idea we’ll all just go to the drugstore in the morning and get a morning-after pill,” argued Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America (CWA) in an Associated Press article. CWA is a conservative organization that is opposed to many reproductive rights and has misleadingly linked emergency...
Postulating that the current requirement to obtain an assistant freshman dean’s or senior tutor’s signature on add/drop forms is unnecessary to the process, Matthew J. Glazer ’06 suggested eliminating the requirement...
Ryan D. Hughes ’06 concurs, having stumbled upon the clubhouse in New York City while walking home from work last summer. He discovered that students can obtain summer memberships for $150, and took advantage of the club as a base in the city during his summer internship commute. He raves about the “incredible competition-level squash courts,” the exercise machines equipped with flat screen televisions, and the “beautiful common rooms...
...current concentrations, multiple factors—such as concentration and Core requirements or limited enrollments—may discourage students from taking classes on subjects that, although related to the Asian American experience, are highly specialized. Often, students choose to enroll in African and African American studies courses to obtain the necessary race theory background. However, African and African American studies typically frame race as a black-white binary, excluding Asian American, Hispanic, Native American and other students. Students find similar limitations in East Asian studies and its emphasis on Asians in East Asia because it rarely includes the historical...