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...vast majority of students are not severely affected by snowy conditions. The main impact is on the Faculty and nonresident students," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "Accommodations for necessary absences should be sought in the same way they would be for unexpected individual emergencies...
Despite the politically correct grandstanding it inspires, Black History Month is on the whole a constructive experience, especially when viewed in the hazy glow of similar celebrations of black heritage. Since its inception in 1926, Black History Month has sought to correct misinterpretations of black history while promoting awareness of significant black historical, figures. Although this idea has, to some extent, evolved into thinly veiled self-esteem therapy for blacks and whites alike, such paeans to equality are not entirely without benefit. These hymns sing the praises of Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and others--black Americans whose...
...cited a 1992 controversy involving the parody of New England Law School Professor Mary Joe Frug by the Harvard Law Revue. This publication sought to satirize The Harvard Law Review, which had published one of Frug's feminist essays shortly after she was murdered in April...
...most pressing practical concern of the bill is its inherent inability to prevent the executions of wrongly convicted inmates. Recently, Anthony Porter, an inmate on death row in Illinois, was freed merely two days before execution after a group of journalism students sought out and found the real killer. According to the Associated Press, Cellucci said the fact that Porter wasn't executed was proof the system works. The governor doesn't seem to realize that this kind of argument--that because private citizens took action to save a death row inmate, the death penalty system works--is completely absurd...
...notified that a stab victim had sought treatment at the Cambridge City Hospital. When officers queried the victim, Colbert Warfield, he refused to tell them how he had been stabbed. Later, Warfield's girlfriend told officers that he had stabbed himself in the arm "out of an act of love...