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They hooted. They jeered. There was even one scuffle between the opposing sides. But it wasn't just another football game that roused such passions at the University of Texas last week. It was a debate about whether the U.S. should wage war on Iraq. That's become an increasingly divisive subject on college campuses across the country, and perhaps nowhere more so than on U.T.'s Austin campus, the largest in the nation, with some 50,000 students, including the President's daughter Jenna...
...while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness... we have to open men's eyes and not tear them...
What do you think of abortion? Do you want a student center? Do you support gun control? Welfare? Post-modernism? Do you support a minimum wage? What do you think of athletes? Do you like Joyce? Does the University need more resources for the sciences? Should we go to war with Iraq...
...Harvard continues to manufacture its official university apparel in such sweatshops. The 1999-2000 Independent University Initiative (IUI), commissioned by the Harvard administration itself, confirmed this to be true. Harvard commissions apparel from companies that violate wage laws, discriminate against women, expose workers to dangerous chemicals and unsafe machinery, and deny them freedom of association—all with the full knowledge of the administration...
...They still haven’t paid me for my second month…and in addition to that, they’re paying me the wrong salary,” said Bosworth, who said his weekly checks are calculated at too low a wage. “The problem is I don’t know where the problem is...Everyone says it’s not their problem...