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Freshman Jack Li earned himself a singles crown on Sunday, but his wallet didn’t grow any thicker in the process. As a collegiate athlete and thus an amateur, Li must adhere to the NCAA regulations which prohibit such players from earning prize money in such events...
OCTOBER 1986: Congress amends the ADEA to prohibit mandatory retirement in most professions. Higher education is granted an extension—they can enforce mandatory retirement until...
...French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly this week to prohibit wearing ostentatious religious symbols in public schools, and most reporting suggests that the outcome of the March 2 Senate vote is already certain: the ban will be approved and enacted by the time classes resume next September. Strong communitarian inclinations may make such a proposal seem preposterous from an American perspective, but France’s national ethos and the very peculiar role of religion in the country’s political life justify the endorsement this legislation has received from President Chirac and the majority of his cabinet, the legislative...
...amendment only authorizes the Pentagon to retaliate against schools that “prohibit,” or “in effect prevent” military recruitment. But the level of access HLS provided to military recruiters prior to the change more than satisfied the statute’s requirements, Kagan said...
...IOP’s mission is to be evaluated, I would not waste time writing prohibitions against activity that is unlikely to happen again. If a future IOP student group wants to consider controversial social action—for instance, siding with workers at a repressive sweatshop making Harvard sweatshirts—it should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Now that the Miami episode is over, the need is to stand up for the students, not retroactively prohibit what they weren’t planning to do anyway...