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...serious opposition from administrators and House Masters. These detractors argue that the SIP Fund’s restrictions will not sufficiently ensure that UC money—which effectively is gathered via the College since it comes through student term-bills—doesn’t go to support underage drinking. It is understandable that administrators are concerned, as there are obviously liability issues whenever alcohol is bought and consumed. Yet the UC has taken care to address these concerns when drafting the protocols for the SIP fund. Though it is conceivable that underage students could possibly acquire alcohol...
...excuse Hassan’s actions, we do hope that his trial will allow for an examination of the system of mental-health offerings in the Army—much like the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 caused many colleges and universities to reevaluate their mental-health support. The Army must consider the mental and emotional well-being of its soldiers to be just as important as physical well-being...
...inmates be executed using three drugs administered in a specific sequence: a barbiturate (to anesthetize inmates), pancuronium bromide (to paralyze inmates and stop their breathing) and lastly potassium chloride (which stops the heart). A simpler, barbiturate-only procedure was rejected on the grounds that the public would not support a killing method for humans modeled after that used for animals, according to Ty Alper, a lawyer who represents death-row inmates and is associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley School...
Some critics have faulted bishops who have argued that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, for instance, should be denied Holy Communion. But Kurtz denies that the church was overreaching its bounds by taking a side in the controversy. "Our efforts in advocating for traditional marriage and our engagement in public policy debates, is entirely consistent with the law," he says. "We're not attempting to cross that line. But we do seek our rightful place in enunciating the principles we hold as essential as cornerstones for good society and the common good...
...Simple truths are often the best. But even these, on television, come swimming now against a current of expectations: Is this line a signal about future troop levels? Is that paragraph a veiled play for bipartisan support on health care? Is the tone appropriately pastoral in this section and sufficiently martial in the next? TV's original power was its immediacy, its you-are-there quality. More and more, it seeks instead to mediate. A nation of citizens is invited to become a culture of critics...