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...Student safety should never be a bullet point on a list of ways to save money.” Anna Raginskaya ’11, a Pforzheimer resident, stressed that the situation was especially dangerous for female students. “It really puts you in a situation where sexual violence could occur simply because you don’t have the option to go home,” she said. “If Harvard was concerned about the safety of its women, Harvard should make it so that if a girl feels uncomfortable in a situation...
...where the violence has dramatically waned, like the southern provinces, the UNHCR says some people remain vulnerable for reasons of religious, ethnic or professional affiliation, or sexual orientation. These include government officials and aid workers, journalists, those who have worked with multinational forces and foreign companies, and homosexuals. "It is a very fragile situation," says Harper...
...Sexual assault cases in the military have risen significantly in recent years as well. A Pentagon report released earlier this year said 165 cases of sexual assault were reported among troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2008, up 26% from the year before. The overall incident rate was up 8% among U.S. service members serving worldwide, with 2,923 cases of sexual assault reported. U.S. military officials have stressed that some of the rise in the figures may be attributable to an increase in the reporting of incidents but acknowledged that the trend was troubling in any case...
...While all of these individuals are well-qualified legal minds, their race, gender, and sexual orientation should not be considered among their qualifications...
...This mindset of regarding Supreme Court nominations as a means of rewarding a constituency for its political support is highly pernicious and poisons the nomination process. Furthermore, the pursuit of racial and sexual balance has no place in a process that should aspire to select justices based on the relevant criteria of intellect and principles, not the irrelevant criteria of complexion and anatomy...