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...each committee at the beginning of every semester, ensuring that future HoCo funding would not be subject to the whims of the current council. HoCos continue to play an important role in campus life, as they plan regular house-based social events, throw open parties, and skirt potentially more stringent constraints on alcohol at larger events. HoCos, for example, threw Stein Clubs immediately before Yardfest, so that neither the College administration, nor students, would not have to encounter the unfortunate hassle of a policed beer garden. As it begins the fall semester, the UC could further benefit social life...
Sharon L. Howell, a tutor in Adams House with two children, says her professors likewise told her that it might be a wiser choice to have a child while working toward a doctoral degree, rather than later on, when she might be a tenure-track faculty member facing stringent deadlines...
...consumers to purchase environmentally sound products, but he does not wish to impose that choice upon them by force. In fact, libertarians can hold any personal moral view without believing that their stance should be forced upon others. Libertarians can support unions, or workers’ collectives, or a stringent set of religious beliefs, and they can hope that others think the same way, but they seek to persuade, never to coerce...
True to form, last week’s general meeting was a complete gong show, as the UC once again contemplated changes to its stringent non-discrimination policy on funding student groups. A brief synopsis: A last-minute piece of new business catapulted the UC into chaos, student group leaders were summoned to testify, a former UC vice president was dragged out of retirement to cast a vote of dubious legitimacy, a motion was made for the ejection of the chair of the Student Affairs Committee from the meeting, and the meeting ended without anything having been accomplished...
...Stringent censorship policies against “objectionable” content stunted the Boston arts scene for much of the last two centuries. The phrase “Banned in Boston” became a joke among the cultural elite, who observed that censorship in Boston meant almost guaranteed success in the rest of the country...