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...grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual preference.” With 69 percent in favor of repeal, the ordinance died. The HRC seems to think that Snickers is trying...
Virgin America is also taking a page from the playbook Southwest developed during the years it spent trying to repeal the Wright Amendment. That bit of legislation was roundly criticized as anticompetitive for keeping Southwest bottled up at Dallas' Love Field--and as less of a threat to American Airlines' fortress hub at Dallas--Fort Worth International. Virgin America's planned rally website, letVAFly.com uses the same technology Southwest did to link consumers wanting to complain with legislators and officials--especially those in California, since Virgin America is based outside of San Francisco...
...still waiting to meet even a single Harvard student who likes the Core Curriculum. No doubt it will go unlamented once its long-anticipated, continuously-postponed repeal is finally accomplished. And then, the student body will let up some great declaration of “huh…whatever” to inaugurate the Core’s reincarnat…I mean, its replacement...
...Last month, justifiably angry student group leaders and Undergraduate Council members protested outside the Faculty meeting and subsequently met with Knowles. He turned down their request to repeal the tax, citing the fact that the tax was a FAS-wide policy and that it would be improper micromanagement for him to intervene...
...student groups will be reimbursed for taxes on their gift funds. [See story, page A1.]The timing of Gross’ announcement, which reverses last week’s decision not to consider reimbursement to student groups, is a political windfall to Petersen, who has led the effort to repeal the tax as chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee. Timing has worked in Hadfield’s favor, as well. On Thursday, three coursepacks went online at Crimsonreading.com, a site created by Hadfield at the start of this term—a first step toward fulfilling...