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...Many proponents of abstinence-only curricula wrote in to express their disappointment over what they saw as a misrepresentation of their position. Most abstinence classes, they told us, don't deny human sexuality. In fact, the classes acknowledge the power of the human sex drive and provide young people with ways of dealing with peer pressure and dating in order to remain abstinent. The decidedly non-secular foundation of some of these chastity-based programs, however, render them irrelevant to the debate over sex education in public schools; initiatives like the Southern Baptists' popular "True Love Waits" have strong religious...
...Brendan, sloshed, sitting at a table in the Wyndham Franklin hotel in downtown Philly. He had long hair then. I met Luke through Brendan, next to Widener Library. Luke told me he hated me; I think his words were: "I hate you." But now he doesn't hate me. All three of us met Mike this year. When we found out he was a drummer we were drunk and enthusiastic. The same night Luke threw up for the first time ever. So we knew...
...always looking for better prices," Rosenthal said. "That's the price we were told...
Thank goodness for folks like Shai M. Sachs '01. This past Sunday, Sachs, along with 23 other student representatives, voted to keep "Radcliffe" in the name of the Undergraduate Council. While Sachs presumably understands that Radcliffe no longer exists as an undergraduate institution, he told The Crimson that his vote was a protest against the neglect of women's rights on campus. He explained, "Female students are still at a big disadvantage, the administration hasn't done anything to fight discrimination...
...never given a real reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes out of his way) a black boy out of all the black boys that are in his jurisdiction. Nor are we ever told the process by which the three Canadians (John Hannah, Deborah Unger, Live Schreiber) suddenly become best friends with Carter and decide to move to New Jersey (!) to fight for his release. And because so much of the movie centers round Carter and Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional...