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...When you graduate, you lose your nice housing, you lose your health care. Issues of affordable housing do matter. Since rent control has been abolished, housing prices have skyrocketed,” said Johnson. “If I need to make a ruckus to get things going on, I will do that...
This type of controversy is nothing new to the major college sports (and here I might be stretching hockey’s popularity a bit): think about the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and the ruckus that erupted with USC being named National Champs by national sportswriters and LSU, the winner of Nokia Sugar Bowl, being named National Champs—through a contractual requirement with the BCS—by the coaches. The 16 teams that play in the Frozen Four tournament are selected strictly by the numbers, and since polls are not given any weight whatsoever, there is only...
Access to contraception can still cause a ruckus these days. But the effort to make the morning-after pill available as an over-the-counter drug is sailing along pretty smoothly. Two FDA advisory committees voted last week 28 to 4 to recommend that the pill known as Plan B be as easy to buy as condoms or cough syrup. Plan B is a high-dose oral contraceptive that prevents fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized egg within 72 hours after intercourse. (Unlike the drug RU 486, it cannot induce an abortion.) "The vote," says committee member James Trussell...
Dropping temperatures couldn’t stop final club initiates from raising a ruckus on campus this week, as naked men scurried across the Yard, ladies decked in yellow and black buzzed into classrooms bearing honey, and scantily clad Speedo-wearers washed cars on Mt. Auburn Street...
Assistant Professor of Sociology Mark J. Zimny said he was amused by the ruckus, joking that he “did not actually have a well prepared lecture in the can, thus he welcomed the unexpected intrusion with gusto...