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Vellucci says the selection of Cambridge's mayor is typically a long and complicated process and that no stigma should be attached to voting for oneself, as Reeves is doing...
Choi's argument illustrates the main problems with present affirmative action policy. Social stigma has divided women/minority groups by those who accept their membership in a community fighting discrimination and those that are pressured by social stigma to reject associations with their respective minority status. There's a difference between an affluent black. Hispanic, or Asian student choosing not to apply for a minority scholarship and making sure female/minority applicants are considered fairly for positions they apply for. The former is a playing field of real choice, the Latter is one dictated by forces not so fair nor easily controlled...
...Richer, For Poorer confronts the stigma behind the problems of divorced women and reveals the necessity for social reform to confront the decline of opportunity regardless of social-economic background. Instead of blaming divorced women for the country's woes, Kurz scrutinizes the unequal status of women in comparison to divorced men and bravely...
Furthermore, this policy may help to remove the stigma that makes alcohol so tempting and dangerous. Harvard students are intelligent enough to realize that alcohol is a social drug that needs to be used responsibly. The administration needs to give them this chance by bringing drinking out from underground and into the open where it will lose its illicit allure and hence its danger...
...president, has served one previous year. Likewise, Brian R. Blais '97, the new vice-president, has been a council member for a mere year. Old-timers Jonathan P. Feeney '97 and Rudd W. Coffey '97, although full of promise and competence, seemed to be ultimately done in by the stigma of experience...