Word: warranting
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...Harvard administration, if it sincerely wishes to begin to change the conditions at this college, must take a clear and firm stand against sexism, in all its permutations If there are any criteria which warrant university sanctions against individuals or organizations which have impinged on the rights and humanity of others, then those responsible in the Pi Eta club must be viewed as such violators. Insofar as the debate over closing the club is secondary to the bigger issue of sexism at Harvard, however, we do not want to scapegoat this club and in any way foster the impression that...
...this weekend's picketers and the majority opinion are attempting to deny the members of the Pi Eta Speaker's Club that right. The Club's newsletter which sparked the protest may have been agressively offensive, yet that does not warrant calling for an official University reprimand. In this instance the majority is asking the University--in no sense the College community's government--to make a legislative statement against bad taste, something it simply must...
...reply. He was at a great disadvantage in carrying on a debate with me because of the enormous demands of operating the university, including the capital fund campaign. Since he did not have time to engage in such a debate, which the importance of the issue would warrant, he did not believe he could authorize publication of the correspondence, which did not do full justice to his views...
...rejected the proposed amendment by a margin of 11--with moderate Republicans tipping the balance. School and prayer are, quite simply, an unacceptable fusion of church and state, as the Senate correctly resolved once again. But the closeness of the vote and the determination of those supporting the measure warrant a close look at the politics of school prayer...
Many U.S. doctors believe that the evidence against alcohol is strong enough to warrant strict warnings. But others disagree and doubt that warning signs are justified. Basically, physicians are disputing the degree of alcohol consumption necessary to risk the abnormalities that physicians call FAS, for fetal alcohol syndrome. Says Dr. Robert J. Sokol, an obstetrician at Wayne State University: "It's questionable whether there has ever been a case of an FAS child born to less than a chronically addicted woman." Dr. John Larsen of George Washington University even takes issue with the Surgeon General's findings. There...