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...Qunnipiac men’s hockey team has been a juggernaut lately, and on Friday, the Harvard men’s hockey team did nothing to stand...
...season of the seniors, the goal made the rookie stand out—something to which Smith is already accustomed. Compared to other Harvard freshmen, at 6’6, he’s taller; at 20 years of age, he’s older; and as an Englishman, he’s more foreign. But on Sunday, Smith stood out in another way as well. Unlike most of the 1,600 other members of his class, he was an athletic hero...
Though the University of Maryland schools may have been driven by practical considerations as well as moral ones, their decision to neglect to develop a policy was a principled stand. It is undoubtedly difficult for a school system that includes parents as some of its main constituents to defend the right to watch porn. Yet by putting constitutional rights ahead of easy moralizing, the university has shown an admirable commitment to the rights of its students...
Describing the current UC as “masturbatory,” an arena where “would-be Senators can grand stand,” Long alluded to the two central foundations of the campaign: an expression of humor on a campus criticized for its sober, pre-professional seriousness, and also a genuine—albeit satirical—critique of the student government’s shortcomings...
...equal rights among its citizens, invoking Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson to suggest parallels for increased individual rights in China. "We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don't believe that the principles that we stand for are unique to our nation," Obama said. "These freedoms of expression and worship - of access to information and political participation - we believe are universal rights." (Read "Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region...