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This moraller-than-thou versus thoughtfuller-than-thou approach to politics illuminates the split between conservatives and liberals over numerous campus issues. Should Harvard change its sexual assault policy and not adjudicate accusations of assault through the Administrative Board? Yes, say conservatives, Harvard can’t try these cases properly. No, say liberals, Harvard has a moral obligation to its female students. Should we create a “queer studies” program or a Latino studies program? Yes, say liberals, these are important groups in society that have a right to a full fledged department...
Across town, Marjorie C. Decker took 42 percent of the total vote in her race to win a representative seat away from State Rep. Paul C. Demakis ’75 (D-Boston). The seat was redistricted last year to include several Cambridge precincts and is now about evenly split between Boston and Cambridge...
...White House plans to send Congress a draft resolution Thursday authorizing an attack on Iraq if the President concludes that current diplomatic efforts won't satisfy U.S. demands on Baghdad's weapons. This follows Monday's offer by Iraq to allow new UN weapons inspections that has once again split the veto-wielding permanent members of the UN security council - pitting the U.S. and Britain against France, Russia and China - and made UN authorization of a U.S. military strike unlikely any time soon...
Similarly, the district for which Decker and Demakis struggle—newly redrawn—is about evenly split by the Charles River. It contains Boston’s tony Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods but 45 percent of the district falls in Cambridge’s more blue collar areas...
...redistricting that pushed Demakis’ district further into Cambridge became controversial in the city, since it split a traditionally-minority district. According to Decker, Finneran arranged for the change in part as a favor to Demakis...