Word: petitioners
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I would venture to guess that Gloria Steinem has never read Thucydides. She and her ideological sisters at Ms. Magazine seem to have overlooked some particularly sound advice in the Athenian admiral’s account of Pericles’ “Funeral Oration.” In his...
The change comes just over three weeks after two undergraduates began an online petition to protest the University’s announcement of the MAC’s closing without consulting students.
“Hopefully the petition, along with the countless e-mails and conversations that we’ve all shared, tipped the case for change in our favor,” wrote Ali A. Zaidi ’08, in an e-mail.
With all this self-abasement and petition to a higher power (be it science or God), it is no wonder that Foley and Gibson thought they could exculpate themselves by appealing to the Christian dogma of human weakness. The irony is that in trying to rationalize their indiscretions, they deny...
It wasn’t always this way. In 1978, as the Core was being readied for Faculty approval, this campus was abuzz with controversy. 2,500 undergraduates signed a petition calling for more student input; a Crimson poll reported that 65 percent of students opposed the plan. Even freshman...