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...Public Health. “I think that you can’t draw a direct link between the increased rates of obesity in this country and sugar-sweetened beverages, but there is an association.” The new research has led some public health experts to renew calls for a “fat-tax” that would help limit soda intake, much in the way tobacco taxes limit cigarette consumption. “If you look at the cigarette literature, there’s a lot of info that applies—if prices...
...million Amount of an AIDS-prevention grant that the U.S. is refusing to renew because Brazil will not state formally that prostitution is dehumanizing...
...regardless of which bodies of the University are cooperating. No power vacuum, no matter how large, need stall the reforms of this curricular review (already three years in the making), and with support from deans and faculty—and the support of undergraduates—we can renew reform without pause.At this point, the review’s first priority should be to eliminate the Core Curriculum. Students and professors are in widespread consensus that the Core is generally impotent and that its philosophies are misguided. Now is our chance to dissolve it and leave something better for posterity...
...reason for this particular avenue of activism.” SLAM’s spring initiative will follow in the tracks of activism that led to the decision of at least ten other colleges to drop their contracts with Coke. Michigan and New York University most recently declined to renew their contracts, garnering nationwide media coverage. According to Usmani, SLAM will likely focus on persuading HUDS not to renew its contract with Odwalla, which is “the best we could hope for here.” Usmani added that he believes getting HUDS to suspend the other contracts...
Following the decision of at least nine other colleges—including New York University (NYU)—to drop their contracts with Coke, the University of Michigan most recently declined to renew its contract at the beginning...