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...more than 370 students charged before the CRR have appeared before the body, and the Houses have consistently refused to send students to serve on the committee. In refusing to co-operate with the CRR, students have charged the University uses the committee to quash disruptive political beliefs...
Today, students cite that feeling as justifying their protest of the body. The CRR exists to quash political debate and that is reason enough to protest, they say, and how it goes about punishing campus dissent is irrelevant...
...million in military and humanitarian aid for the contras, which had been narrowly rejected in the House the week before. On Thursday evening the Senate approved the aid package by a vote of 53 to 47. While the raid did not alter any Senator's vote, it did quash attempts to expand upon House limits on how and when the money could be used. Although the margin was hardly the bipartisan mandate that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said he had hoped for, it was a concrete boost for Reagan in his attempt to gain approval from the House when...
...attitude that we, as minority students, must agree before we act is paralyzing. It can stop leaders from acting; it can quash the voices of those most committed to a group. Let's get the word...
...Davis, Dingman, and Ellen Porter Honnett A vocabulary lacking the two words "no comment." A salute to Mike Spence, now entering year two But tell us, please, when we can talk to you. In between your games of tennis and squash We offer you one more faculty scandal to quash...