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...than one bathroom in the suite, according to the handbook. The Undergraduate Council (UC) voted 31-1-2 earlier this month to back a five-page position paper outlining the arguments for co-ed rooming. The council called for an end to “burdensome and arbitrary constraints upon the formation of coeducational rooming arrangements.” UC members presented the position paper to House masters and College administrators at the CHL meeting yesterday morning, and the paper’s sponsor, Currier House representative Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, said...
...Once upon a time in the U.S., politicians could be trusted to act in the best interest of America’s youth. It has long been conventional wisdom that candidates for office would be rewarded at the polls for dedicating energy, words, financial resources, and even political votes that served the interest of “our country’s children.” That time has passed. Unfortunately, America’s youth is among the least organized of the special interests competing for the attention of lawmakers—perhaps, shockingly, even less organized then animal...
...course to be ethically related, however, would force students into selecting from a small, inevitably arbitrary menu of classes, creating the Core’s problems anew. Furthermore, it would incentiveize professors to manipulate and build their curricula around this requirement, creating contrived courses.Instead of forcing a requirement upon students, faculty should create exciting courses that attract students without being required. Under such a system, we have no doubt that the great Moral Reasoning courses—like Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—will still attract students. Additionally, it would be hard...
...truth is, no one knows the exact population in New Orleans right now. But the police department does not dispute the total number of murders upon which the TIME analysis was based. And the increase in bloodshed is an ominous milestone for a city desperate to rebuild and make itself stronger than it was before. "Are we back to the good old days?" wonders Peter Scharf, a criminologist at the University of New Orleans. "Are all the things that made New Orleans embarrassing before the storm coming back...
...Minsk's downtown Oktyabrskaya Square on Monday night looked the next bright morning like merry little stalls offering hot tea and cakes to those enjoying the square's small outdoor skating rink. But the tents were covered with the national white and red colors of Belarus, frowned upon since President Alexander Lukashenko officially reintroduced the Soviet-era symbols back in 1995, and the 1000 or so people standing vigil around the tents didn't look like they were enjoying a day out with the family. Having spent a freezing night in the square, exhausted by sporadic scuffles with the police...