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...rejected the idea of having any undergraduate other than Sundquist serve. At a UC meeting on March 10, Sundquist told the Council that he had been offered a seat on the committee. After two rounds of UC discussion and a vote, Sundquist accepted the committee’s offer Tuesday morning. “We’re very pleased that they have decided to put a student on the committee,” Sundquist said yesterday. The College’s decision comes after several months of explicitly rejecting the idea of undergraduate participation. While some...
...door. The next morning, they find out which of the 12 undergraduate Houses they’ve been assigned to by reading the contents of an envelope delivered surreptitiously to their room. This week, however, freshmen are not the only students faced with a housing surprise. On Tuesday, Winthrop residents awoke to an e-mail from a House administrator informing them that the long tradition of “n+1” housing for seniors (where n equals the number of residents in the room) had been suddenly terminated. Winthropians have in the past endured cramped doubles...
...decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has stood apart from the debate raging over gun control. It hasn't ruled on the Second Amendment since May 1939 - almost four months before the Nazis rolled into Poland. But on Tuesday the Court injected itself into the center of a fiery dispute, hearing arguments in a gun control case that marks the amendment's greatest test since it was ratified in 1791. During the argument, a majority of justices appeared to signal that the right to bear arms extends to ordinary Americans, a belief that could redraw the lines of this contentious cultural...
Outside the court Tuesday, advocates for both sides hoisted signs inscribed with political slogans. Some camped out overnight in hopes of becoming among the few admitted to witness the Court in action at a landmark moment. Anticipation in the legal community was no less fevered, with dozens of parties filing briefs on both sides. Inside, the argument before the Court hinged on the justices' interpretation of the 27-word sentence that has been scrutinized all the way down to its puzzling syntax. The critical question for the justices was whether the language confers an individual right...
Accompanied by two other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee - Independent Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut (a possible McCain V.P. candidate), and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina - McCain visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday where he wrote in the guestbook: "I am deeply moved. Never again...