Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These comments should shock every citizen of the United States. We should be appalled that politicians, the people to whom we trust the government of this nation, freely admit practices that seek to prohibit the exercise of civil rights. When someone tries to keep you from voting, they become as venal and despicable as the thugs of a totalitarian dictator...
Hate-speech regulations, intended to prohibit slurs against minorities, women and gays, have proved nettlesome for other universities. Courts have decreed that the codes at state schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin run afoul of the First Amendment. At many schools, hate-speech rules are on the books, but are not enforced...
...Freshman Dean's Office plans to prohibit newly appointed proctors from keeping pets in university housing beginning next year, ending a long tradition of dogs and cats in the Yard, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said yesterday...
...regulations that prohibit the advertisement of athletic products in Harvard arenas hamper the ability of Harvard to receive large endorsements...
...Since elections are conducted at the first full council meeting of the term, this [constitutional] amendment would effectively prohibit any deviation, regardless of extenuating circumstances," argued council Administrative Liaison Andrew J. Ehrlich '96 against the constitutional amendment...