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...university promotes its system as a means of ensuring a "diverse" student body. Unfortunately, Michigan makes the awful mistake of assuming that skin color or geographic location necessarily determines a student's viewpoint. This is precisely the reason that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets so angry when people question his "belief" in conservative values, as though a black judge must be a Democratic liberal. Likewise, a Hispanic applicant may not represent the thoughts and culture of his or her heritage any better than a white student, and someone from Iowa may know more about the stock market than...
...Commentary "Our Imperial Judiciary" [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 4], Charles Krauthammer decried the Florida Supreme Court and all courts for "trampling the prerogatives of elected legislatures and elected governments." While I do not agree with a number of the rulings that the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court have made in recent years, I defend their right to make them. We absolutely need a court that will protect individual rights from majority rule and help interpret laws with conflicting provisions. I find that the Florida legislature has enacted laws that allow for manual recounts but do not provide deadlines with enough...
...Goodheart will refrain from offering his viewpoint on the search until the appropriate moment, Patrick predicts...
...time. His thorough knowledge of the institution he personally refuted and took great delight in mocking established him as that most dangerous of heretics, a blasphemer with a purpose. Though many of his most noted works shine a spotlight on the hypocrisy of organized religion, he balanced this viewpoint with the acknowledgment, in "Nazarin" and "Viridiana," that the principles of Christian charity are noble and laudable, although sadly unworkable in modern society...
...second, more pervasive myth is that Harvard undergraduates are somehow restrained from expressing our views about controversial issues like the situation in the Middle East by a fear of offending our neighbors. This viewpoint has a certain validity; in recent years, concern about speech codes and a general trend towards "political correctness" has led to increased sensitivity, and some would argue censorship, on campus. Reduced to its essence, however, this argument seems more of a cop-out and less of an actual explanation as to why public dialogue about the Middle East situation is absent on the average undergraduate...