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...viable communities. Also, relying on extracurricular activities and friendships from high school is unwise because of the inherent instability of these kinds of communities. Student organizations lose their appeal with time, as their leadership and priorities change, and high school friends grow apart in college. Strong House communities are vital because they are a safety net—when students can profit from the acquaintance and friendship of hundreds of housemates, their chances of emerging safely from the collapse of friendships or changes in activities increase dramatically...
...permitted? And other such quandaries.Under the new General Education plan proposed by the Committee on General Education, however, moral reasoning classes may be stricken from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance of moral and ethical education, but stops short of a requirement. Everyone agrees that ethics are a vital part of any education, but there is disagreement about where they belong in the new curriculum. “The committee seemed to drift to a least-common-denominator approach,” writes Johnstone Family Professor Psychology Steven Pinker in an e-mail. The Generdal Education Committee was unable...
...With tensions rising ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's scheduled trip to Washington next month, is it possible that the U.S.-China trade relationship is about to go off the rails? Global markets shrug it off when the French throw a hissy fit and race to protect their vital national yogurt industry, as they did last year, or when pundits pretend it matters which European Union country owns what gas utility. But a trade war between the U.S. and China?with each side taking punitive, protectionist steps to shut out the other's products, services and investments?poses...
...warrant—and we agree that HUPD, as a deputized police force, ought to be subject to the same constitutional limits under which public police must operate. However, since an individual’s consent is as good as a warrant, students may unwittingly be stripping themselves of vital constitutional protections when they let officers poke around. We call on the College to clarify this situation by making all students aware of their rights in relation to HUPD. In two recent drug-related room searches—two of which ended in arrests—officers had not obtained...
...Council, representing companies that make approximately 85% of U.S. chemical products, supports federal legislation to give the Department of Homeland Security authority to secure chemical facilities across the U.S. It's not often that an industry asks to be regulated, but homeland security and the protection of America's vital assets must be addressed as a national priority...