Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satisfy this requirement, students should be allowed to choose a course within any department devoted to the study of a particular race, ethnicity or region of the world. Another option for complying with the Foreign Cultures requirement should be spending at least one academic semester abroad...
Fairfax permits parents to have their children excused from classes in which homosexuality is discussed, an option that school officials say only about 1.5% of parents exercise. Wayne Steward, 17, a gay senior, is convinced that such programs work toward eliminating prejudice. "When students don't understand what differences there may be ((among people))," he says, "they can let fear cloud their judgment...
Yale and Penn still work on a walk in system, though they also give students the option of scheduling appointments with physicians or nurse practitioners ahead of time...
...country's blanket ban, last reaffirmed by voters in 1983, came under new scrutiny in March, when the Supreme Court allowed a 14-year-old rape victim to have her pregnancy medically terminated in Britain. In a three-part referendum, voters overwhelmingly decided to legalize that previously unlawful option by permitting women to travel abroad for abortions and obtain information about how to do so. But a constitutional amendment allowing abortions to be performed in Ireland in cases where a mother's life is threatened was roundly defeated because both pro-choice and antiabortion forces decided to oppose...
...other option then was randomization. However, as David L. Duncan '93, an Undergraduate Council representative from Winthrop House, pointed out at last Sunday's council meeting, knowing that almost everyone likes cranberry juice or apple juice doesn't mean that almost everyone will like cranapple juice...