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Although the sponsors of the changes said they could not remember a time when a PBHA member had been suspended or removed from a position, the cabinet changed its bylaws to allow more PBHA officials to suspend members...
Under the new rules, a committee chair, program director or the executive director of PBHA can suspend or remove a member from their post...
...final decision on how long to suspend a member or whether to remove him from his position would be made a PBHA's executive director and president...
Whom does the council represent anyway? Apparently, it speaks for the few students who are willing to suspend Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. Certainly, many council members have gone to great lengths to convince themselves they are not discriminatory--the bill goes so far as to even denounce the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At the same time, the council apparently cannot grasp how the bill directly violates its own principles of non-discrimination and the Harvard wide policies that protect students of all minority status. By recommending that ROTC have recruiting privileges through the Office...
...bill's supporters have decried the prima facie dismissal of these ostensible 'cadet concerns," but unfortunately for them, a nondiscrimination policy is by definition a prima facie dismissal of organizations who discriminate. Despite any good intentions, the resolution sets a dangerous precedent by suggesting that the University should suspend its nondiscrimination policy when in the "national interest" or when the "admirable" aspects of an organization outweigh its bigoted ones. This precedent hurts all students the policy protects, whether women, the disabled or people of color. Institutional decision cannot rely on vague criteria that ask us to decide when discrimination...