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...government to prevent weapons from reaching the l.t.t.e. is commendable. Jayantha Guruge, DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, U.S. Verbal Villain or Victim of Censorship? If the outrage over radio-show host Don Imus' racist and sexist slur is to hold any meaning, it will be in its power to help us reflect upon the freedoms, values and conflicts that compose our collective psyche [April 23]. Sadly, our society too often rewards those who traffic in disrespect. Let Imus encourage us to question all who profit from debasement and remind us of the dignified existence our freedoms were meant to provide. David Terhune...
Women occupy the offices of the presidency at countless universities around the country—half of the Ivy League universities have a women presidents, if you include Ppresident-elect Drew G. Faust—but upon Faust’s appointment, the announcement of Harvard’s first female president was somehow of a greater magnitude than those that had been made so many times before, so many years earlier, in so many other university press rooms...
...impact on the lives of the students on which the Ad Board passes judgment. And yet, unlike at many peer institutions, the Board does not have any student representatives.This is problematic because students can often provide a valuable new perspective, because they better understand the strains and stresses acting upon their peers than faculty or administrators. Being judged by one’s peers also adds an air of legitimacy—we need only look to the American judicial system for an example, which has this notion as its cornerstone. Consequently, we believe that students should serve as full...
...advocates have taken it upon themselves to prepare booklets and push administrators to create Web sites—the first few steps to narrowing the information...
...progressed, and he considered the options available to him after graduation.“Every year as I got older, I saw guys who I played with go on to the pros, and I thought I could play at their level,” Reese said. “Upon finishing college hockey, I knew I wanted to pursue it as a career.”Under the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement, the New York Rangers organization retained the rights to Reese until one year after he left school, and the blueliner was therefore obligated to sign...