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...these pages. Students, opponents say, will drink in the houses, binge drink, or avoid seeking help for dangerously intoxicated friends for fear of punishment. Yale’s tougher policy led to a significant drop in alcohol hospitalizations last year.Meanwhile, the Undergraduate Council has temporarily put aside its trivial squabbles and united around something that students actually care about, and for that they should be lauded. But this is a sports column, and there’s no need to rehash what’s already been said on those issues. Instead, the administration also needs to understand what impact...
...women’s descriptions of rampant abuse, such as domestic violence. “The men in these [northwest displacement] camps are basically warehoused, causing them to take out their frustrations on the women,” who are often victims of kidnapping or rape due to trivial feuds, Ismail said...
Such is not only true in the case of campus arrests but also in more trivial matters, such as last spring’s altercation involving a shuttle-bus driver and senior football players, Dan P. Lane ’07 as well as James R. Velissaris ’07, which continues to reverberate in posterity...
...September 11 attacks. Though not always completely clear in the details, the gist comes through well enough: a complete failure by multiple administrations to take bin Laden and terrorism seriously. It includes such devastating truths as "[The attack] was carried out by a tiny group of people with trivial resources operating from one of the poorest, least industrial of all nations... In some ways they were more globalized than we were." Those looking for a neutral primer on the background of the events of 9/11 will probably not do any better than this handy book...
...think the coverage of the trivial is what is most unfair," says MacManus. "Everybody has some quirky tale to tell about...