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...Queer Students and Allies co-president Christian L. Garland ’10 says that, though the College administration has been more open to working with his organization than in the past, Hammonds has not attended any QSA event...
...Though Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin says that Hammonds stays open to students’ perspectives by reading campus publications and House lists, the Dean has lacked a strong physical presence in the College, according to some students...
...feel that [Hammonds] does try to present some sort of impression that she’s open to student concerns, but I don’t know how true that is,” Johnson-Roberson says. “She didn’t take the criticisms seriously enough or present a case that spoke to the actual issues...
...Central to our founding constitutional vision was the public jury trial—in a proceeding that was fully open to the public, in which the jury expressed the conscience of the community. The founders contemplated that the jury would act as a source of wisdom and moderation, as the ultimate judge of fact and law; it was to act as a check in our constitutional system of checks and balances on the otherwise unchecked discretionary prosecutorial power of the executive. No citizen could have his liberty taken away without the unanimous consent of an empowered, powerful jury...
...While his statement calls for "vigorous (yet peaceful) actions," his logic leads elsewhere. This is where President Obama's call for "common ground" collides with the reality of the issue. Some people are uncertain enough about the issue to be open to competing arguments and the weighing of moral claims. But some people are in no doubt about what they think. There will always be people on the left who dislike talk of abortion as a "tragedy" or support for restrictions on it, on the grounds that a woman facing an unintended pregnancy has enough challenges without navigating a moral...