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While budget battles rage throughout the city and state, one segment of the local population is looking beyond regional borders to the small island-nation of Haiti...
...here we approach the root of the problem. Note Webb and DeGiogio's statement that "Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which our society and many others are based." Indeed, Hillel does work within--and add to--the Jewish tradition. But Hillel is not a Judeo-Christian organization. It is a Jewish organization. There is a difference...
...Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) has endured many thoughtless and misguided criticisms in its brief history, yet none so disappointing as the condemnation from the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel of April 9. Disappointing because the Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian moral and ethical tradition upon which our society and many others are based. The very idea of homosexuality is anathema to both the Jewish faith and AALARM's mandate to uphold traditional American values. Therefore, it has grown uncomfortably obvious that AALARM, in this instance, is the more sincere advocate...
...democracy, effective law enforcement requires community support. Without it, the concept of ordered liberty is impossible. However true public- police partnerships are fashioned -- and they do exist -- they can never thrive, as the Kerner commissioners put it, "when a substantial segment of the community feels threatened by the police and regards the police as an occupying force...
Certainly, Harvard hasn't done its best in dealing with transfer students. For a university that prides itself so greatly on the house system and the sense of community it fosters, excluding a sizeable segment of the student body is hypocritical. Transfer students go to great lengths to get to Harvard, but many feel locked out from the academic resources the rest of us take for granted...