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This war is not a response to imminent danger. Rather, Bush’s policy of pre-emptive strike becomes a justification to ceaselessly launch future military campaigns to “eradicate evil”—a justification that can also be used by any other country blinded by fear or wishing to opportunistically follow suit...
...threat to the world” as such threats go, protests will continue, and resistance to Bush’s irresponsible military aggression must only grow. We must continue to demand the end of this war, and to oppose the Bush administration’s intent to strike pre-emptively elsewhere. It is now our responsibility to “enforce the just demands of the world” on Bush...
...lose a total of $52 million in state aid. Although Romney said he would not cut a single city’s budget by more than 10.5 percent, many municipalities have complained that the cuts are even more severe. Decreases in this state aid to municipalities are expected to strike school districts especially hard, and yet Romney has separately proposed cutting the state’s funding of special education...
However, the recent strike was driven by the unionization demands by other unorganized groups—most notably, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO). The vast majority of Yale undergraduate student and indeed most graduate students do not support GESO. Graduate students are given full tuition scholarships and generous stipends. They are students working towards a degree, not employees...
...have the interest of Yale or its students in mind. Therefore I, along with what appeared to be a very strong majority of Yale undergraduates, crossed the few picket lines that did exist last week and attended class. I will continue to do so as long as this strike, which hurts the workers more than it hurts Yale, continues...