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...Columbia, it contributed to the founding of our Office of Multicultural Affairs), they also trivialize matters that are deserving of serious discussion. More recently, the Columbia University College Republicans held a “global warming party” (complete with snow cones, Frisbees, and beach umbrellas) to protest a campus screening of “An Inconvenient Truth.” I sincerely hope that, on all campuses, conservative political groups will return to respectable discourse rather than engaging in these ridiculous antics...
...Though Chen trails in the race, she is in many ways the more charismatic candidate. A founding member of the DPP, she spent six years in prison for her participation in a pivotal 1979 pro-democracy protest against the then-ruling Kuomintang, which came to be known as the Kaohsiung Incident. She is a fiery speaker, and can easily attract hundreds of supporters to public rallies. And she's running a campaign that emphasizes her ties to Hsieh's powerful legacy - her supporters carry signs that say, "Good baton, pass it on." During his six years in office Hsieh...
...Stand back or you’ll get Tasered too!": That was the yell of an angry police officer when a concerned onlooker stepped forward to protest the shocking of a student with a Taser in the UCLA library. The incident took place nearly two weeks ago, when a student refused to produce his ID during a standard check of library premises by police...
Most accounts of the situation agree that the student refused to leave and, when he lay prone in protest, was shocked by a taser five times. A video of the event, taken by cell phone and circulated on YouTube, has sparked widespread disgust. The officer’s threat to Taser the intervening onlooker demonstrates what is perhaps most shocking about the incident: the wanton and unnecessary use of violence...
...Unfortunately, instead of quenching the crisis, the tribunal will most likely produce the exact opposite effect. A couple of weeks ago, the Hezbollah and Amal members of the Lebanese cabinet quit their posts in an act—many suspect—of protest against the government’s approval of a UN draft setting up the aforementioned international tribunal...