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...funds of student groups, according to Banta. Mather pays hundreds of dollars to the Box Office to sell tickets for events such as the Mather Lather and House formal, Banta said. Black Men’s Forum President Charles J. Hamilton ’07 called for the repeal of the University Hall tax on the student group gift fund. The tax is 5 percent this year and will increase to 15 percent in three years. The UC estimates that the 5 percent tax will accrue $20,000 for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which currently runs...
...Undergraduate Council voted unanimously last night to call upon the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to repeal the tax it instituted this year on all donations to the Harvard Gift Fund. Money given to the tax-deductible gift fund generally comes from alumni and passes to the designated student groups. The FAS tax will start at 5 percent this year and increase to 15 in three years. FAS currently taxes donations to the gift fund at a rate under 2 percent, according to UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08, a sponsor of last...
...Abortion has shown up on only three state ballots in this year, but one of them is particularly high profile. In South Dakota citizens will vote to repeal a law passed in February that bans all abortions, except in cases where the mother"s life is threatened (legislators voted against amendments that provided exemptions for women who became pregnant through rape or incest). If voters choose to keep the law, challenges to its constitutionality are expected, quite possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. That is exactly what the law's backers, who want it to serve...
...staffer from the Commerce Committee told me that in 1995 and 1996 he fought to repeal regulations. Now he spends all his time writing them. Another staffer told me how he spent years fighting pork barrel spending on behalf of his boss. Now he spends all his time submitting earmarks for more special interest spending - on behalf of his boss...
...reprehensible effects on both the military and the students it is recruiting.Universities have been all but coerced into accepting DADT, which prohibits openly gay individuals from serving in the military. We are dismayed by this result: dismayed the Supreme Court’s decision; dismayed that Congress has not repealed DADT; and dismayed that the University has not pressured Congress to repeal the amendment. But we also disagree with the some of the indulgent, sensationalistic, and ill-founded protests against military recruiters.Unlike its position during the Vietnam War, the University now does not object to military recruiters...