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Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05, who made UKA part of his campaign platform, said that he thought most Houses would support the extended policy. He has argued that the access will make the campus safer because students will not have to wait outside entryways late at night...
...shimmering heat of June is burdened, not alone with the scent of roses, but also with the phantoms of floating platitudes, as benedictions fall from the platform of each school and college in the country upon a graduating class. Thousands of schoolboys learn afresh the significance of educo. Numberless local sages stand for a verbose hour in loco parentis. The inserts of the press are pock-marked with notes and news-boxes remarking who has damned and who has praised flaming youth. Incipient summer is not time to evaluate these ebullitions. One can but say that, in mass, they sound...
...week before Spring break, I was witness to the election of the new officers of the Woodbridge Society. My ears perked up when I heard many of my first-year friends running for the board on a platform that promised to encourage more participation from Americans. I was secretly thrilled. Maybe we all felt a common lack of fulfillment, I thought to myself. But during the question session, one of the departing board members—a senior veteran of Woodbridge—asked the candidates a question that I thought produced the most telling answers. Innocuously enough, it asked...
...jockeying for a spot as close to the podium as possible. Whenever the white car carrying their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, came into view, the scene would turn into pandemonium. Bodyguards with Kalashnikov ma-chine guns would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath the arches. Once there, his speech was usually brief, but the point of his appearance was clear: to show his movement's strength and plant the seeds for Islamic revolution. "Muqtada!" the crowd would roar. "We will sacrifice our blood...
Johnson’s platform involves focusing on women’s safety, improving the transportation system, fighting for affordable housing systems and working towards a single-payer health care system. Johnson said she personally relates to these issues because as a soon-to-be graduate she is looking...