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...ASNE has shown their support for student press by withdrawing funds from Hampton, and other donors to the university should threaten the same. If it will not agree to give its student press more autonomy, Hampton needs to pay a price. The pen may be mightier the sword, but only when it is not sheathed by administrative censorship...
City officials said the proposed Cambridge Community Charter School would threaten the district’s schools by draining its students, stealing a portion of its funding and failing to allow the district to recover from a messy schools consolidation last year...
...same factories—has taken action to resolve several cases of severe worker mistreatment. The WRC has a strong record of identifying abuses, promptly performing thorough investigations and resolving the problems. An independent group, not subject to the control of the companies it oversees, the WRC can credibly threaten to cut University contracts with companies that do not improve, generating proactive change when others, including...
...business. Many of these factories also include clinics, the only sources of medical care for employees and their families. In reality, so-called sweatshops are some of the most lucrative employment opportunities available in Vietnam and in similarly underdeveloped parts of the world. The WRC’s demands threaten to effectively deny workers a source of livelihood; by joining such an organization without more careful consideration of the consequences of its policies, Harvard would not be living up to its ethical responsibilities...
...American institution of higher education, to support our country’s armed forces. Harvard’s antidiscrimination policy may have been made with the best of intentions, but ROTC's presence would not imply Harvard’s official imprimatur, and would hardly intimidate or threaten homosexuals on campus—the symptom the policy seeks to quash...