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Despite the uncertain legality, one of the resolution’s sponsors believes the court’s decision provides Cambridge with the mandate to issue valid marriage licenses to gay couples...
Some rebut that the U.S. has every right to place conditions on our foreign aid. Of course this argument is valid, but the question is what stipulations are in our nation’s long-run interests. I would argue that perhaps our most fundamental interest lies in the promotion of democracy abroad. If we are to silence any speech, it ought to be that which undermines democracy. A gag rule that prohibits funding organizations that promote terrorism on the side is thus justifiable. But abortion advocates, unlike supporters of terrorism, are an important voice within any democratic dialogue. Last...
Scholarship on women has always included perspectives of gender and sexuality in order to understand the historical and theoretical position of women. It is therefore not a coincidence that when a movement of students and faculty at Harvard tried to gain recognition for gender and sexuality studies as a valid discipline, the majority of the faculty members supportive of the initiative were already affiliated with CDWS...
Some have argued that combining women’s studies with gender and sexuality studies will dilute the two fields, and that it would be a better idea to have two separate committees. While this is a valid concern, the deliberations of the CDWS’s full faculty revealed that this would serve only to hinder the interdisciplinary nature of the field and construct artificial boundaries. After all, when the list of instructors for any new department would be nearly identical to that of the current CDWS, it is clear that the administrative cost would needlessly increase without...
...tests carries over into rehearsal. During my interminable rests, I read coursepacks and highlight in books. Sometimes I feel guilty for not listening to what is going on around me, but often there are just too many pages to read before section the next day, and rehearsal is valid downtime in which...