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...there's any irony in the idea of the U.S. military paying salaries to insurgents as an incentive to get them to stop fighting, that doesn't appear to be stopping the military from considering a similar plan to co-opt Sadrists into security forces for the Shiite cities. Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey of the 1st Armored Division has proposed creating a Najaf Brigade to police the city, which would initially comprise 1,800 men drawn from militias loyal to local tribal chiefs and to the various Shiite political parties, and could include members of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia...
...actually defeat the goal that it hopes to accomplish. As the extremely close results of the referendum show, many students are not in favor of such an increase. While many may happily support the current $35 activities fee, increasing it to $75 will likely cause many to opt out of its payment. The result would be both a sense of alienation among students and a significant decrease in council revenue. Although revenue may not decrease below its current level, the result will become highly inequitable: students who opt out of the fee will pay nothing, while those...
...time to private schools or just over the Pennsylvania border. Today Delaware has one of the highest private-school attendance rates in the country, at 19%--and that number started its climb just as busing began. In Brandywine, the district where Smith's children attend school, 26% of families opt for private schools. In 1995 a federal judge ruled that Wilmington had achieved integration and lifted the court order. But by then much of the earlier tension had abated, and the four districts continued busing...
...interest of making it easier to protest or support the council, we also feel that the “opt-out” system must be replaced by two check boxes: one for opting-in and one for opting-out. Thanks to the termbill referendum, many more students now know about their right to opt-out of paying the Student Activities Fee that funds the council. Nevertheless, the 65 percent of Harvard students who did not vote in the referendum deserve to exert the same discretion. The clear vote against changing the fee to mandatory implies that the student body...
What the council cannot afford is to brush off its responsibility to justify the fee increase in hopes that students will forget to opt-out next year. Although it means more work for the embattled organization, the outcome of this referendum also presents a tremendous opportunity for the council. On its shoulders rests the responsibility to prove to students that it deserves more money. If the council is successful, then students will be better served, and the council will be able to state more confidently that it has widespread support for all the activities it organizes. That kind of legitimacy...