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...question that is on the ballot this year is a 'non-binding public opinion advisory question' of nuclear non-proliferation. If passed, the City Council would be obligated to send a letter to President Clinton asking him to "engage other nuclear nations in negotiations for a Nuclear Weapons Convention requiring a specific timetable for phased elimination of nuclear weapons...
...This question, according to the chairman of the 'No on Question #1 committee, City Council candidate David Trumbull, is a waste of time and money for Cambridge...
...first-year learns that his or her roommate is gay and wishes to change rooms, the University complies, even if the two people in question have never even met, much less lived together. This policy was rightfully denounced by a recent Undergraduate Council resolution against homophobia as "creating an environment in which homophobia is seen as an acceptable belief which should be accommodated." Indeed, by allowing a rooming change before the roommates have met, the University is in fact reinforcing blind prejudice. And in the wake of an outbreak of homophobic vandalism on campus, it certainly appears as though Harvard...
Well, like most issues, this question has another side. As a university and not a religious institution, the University is responsible for the protection of all student's beliefs, including morally questionable ones. That means that homophobes, racists and bigots of all kinds have rights too. No one, should be forced by Harvard to room with someone with whom they truly do not want to live. Even if their reasons are immoral to you and to the University...