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...telling corollary, even with ever-stricter alcohol regulation on campus, significantly more students were admitted to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol-related illness than in any previous year. We argue that Harvard’s alcohol policies push students who want to drink, particularly freshmen, to unsafely binge before going to a party rather than drink socially at the party itself. The school’s relatively new amnesty policy, which protects ill students and those who escort them to Stillman from disciplinary action, is a good one. But even if it is only this newfound comfort that is pushing...
...assume that students will choose to party with a type of drug and are indifferent to which one. Which one they choose is dependent on a variety of reasons, but certainly the penalties of consuming are one of them. Many more schools have stricter punishments for possessing marijuana, and thus students have this in mind when they gravitate toward the more available, and potentially more dangerous, alcohol. Although schools should certainly not encourage the consumption of drugs, they might consider recognizing that marijuana can be safer alternative to binge drinking and adjusting their penalties accordingly. At the very least, school...
...disagree about how much power to give the Federal Reserve, how to wind down failing banks without bailouts, how to regulate "systemic risk," whether to cap the size of banks, whether to allow banks to own hedge funds or play the markets with their own cash, whether to preempt stricter state banking regulations, and countless other disputes over leverage and liquidity restrictions, payday lenders, securitization, industrial loan corporations, derivatives end users, mortgage underwriting and other arcane issues that probably won't translate into 30-second attack...
...using the DREAM Act to hold the other side hostage,” Schumacher-Matos says. Proponents of more progressive immigration policies want to leverage the bill’s bipartisan support to pull through comprehensive reform, while their opponents will support the DREAM Act only in exchange for stricter enforcement. There are also those who reject amnesty in any form...
...ICCAT, and not CITES, is still the proper mechanism for regulating tuna. "It's true that for some years, ICCAT didn't work well because member states didn't comply with its rules," says Javier Garat, secretary general of the Madrid-based Spanish Fishing Confederation. "But it's gotten stricter, and its efforts are bearing fruit...