Word: unfairness
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...need to be reiterated. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts’ denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise of freedom to all. Centuries of women, ethnic and religious minorities and immigrants, for example, have...
...alone among the Harvard community who had difficulty obtaining tickets to football games. Excessively long lines and allegations of football managers scalping tickets and administrators giving preference to final club members created a stir around campus that year. Due to the frustrations created by the complicated and, at times, unfair ticketing procedures, investigations were launched into the matter and the Faculty Committee on Athletics worked to correct three main problems...
...banned cigarette ads from television in 1971."The average child sees more than 10,000 food commercials a year, and most are for high-calorie foods," says Ludwig. The American Academy of Pediatrics has concluded that advertising to children under age 8 is inappropriate, Ludwig says. "It's inherently unfair to market directly to young children, who lack the intellectual maturity to distinguish commercials from the substance of a TV show." Nestle argues that it's unfair to parents too. "Why should you have to fight with your child every day about what goes into the lunch box?" she asks...
This combination of fees is both unfair and bad for business. It is unfair because it is not in exchange for a good or service that normally costs money. It would be like charging athletes for the privilege of being covered in The Crimson’s sports pages—clearly a preposterous idea. HYP leaders argue that in fact the $10 fee is a necessary part of their revenue. But this should be a free service, as it is at HYP’s archrival, the Yale Banner...
...meant to help students and organizations find each other and the resources they need—objectives that it can achieve with proper support and funding from the administration. Indicting the center for failing to do something it doesn’t purport to do is illogical and unfair...