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Following news reports highlighting the policy’s wording??which some students criticized as an infringement on their freedom of speech—the school’s Dean for Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag sent out an e-mail to the student body stating that all students are “absolutely free to speak with members of the media about anything they wish...
That distinction appeared intended to set the University apart from any larger debate over PetroChina or the genocide in Sudan, including growing movements at other campuses to divest as well. But the wording??“the University simply does not consider it proper”—left little room to discern why PetroChina was unique among several other holdings to which some advocates have objected...
While ASCR narrowly recommended the proposal for ExxonMobil, CCSR abstained, citing the resolution’s poor wording??and instead, wrote a letter to the company’s management asking it to address the proposal’s concerns. CCSR member Houghton, a former chairman of the ExxonMobil, is a director on its board...
While student activists say they see the changed wording??and the University’s commitment to using the single fact finder—as positive steps, they say they are suspicious of any evidentiary requirement for cases to be brought forward...
...dealing with specific allegations of media bias is exceptionally difficult. Hidden bias, after all, is by definition unapparent. When someone describes a news story as biased—in interpretation, selection, wording??it often means that it conflicts with what the speaker believes to be an accurate presentation. During the Lewinsky scandal, conservatives were sure that the protection of the liberal media had kept President Bill Clinton in office, just as Clinton’s defenders spoke of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that was keeping the scandal alive. Without a method...
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