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However, band selection, booze—the Dean of Students at the time, Archie C. Epps III, banned kegs in 1998 followed by a complete ban of alcohol in 1999—and battles with the President’s Office over control of the event after joining forces in 2002, proved to be divisive issues...
...that he finds a "value in male camaraderie." Variations of this theme surface again and again in conversations with club members. Many express concern that with the introduction of women, cohesion, tight membership bonds, and institutional respect would all vanish. They often grow uncomfortable when asked how the current ban on women is any different from past forms of exclusion, such as keeping out blacks and Jews, but most settle on the argument that, unlike race or religion, gender is a "real" distinction.As we all learned in preschool, boys and girls are indeed different. But are these differences significant enough...
...supposed to create a database to track pain-pill purchases - as 38 other states already have. And there's more legislation in the pipeline this year, including laws that would make it illegal for anyone other than a doctor in good standing to run one of the clinics, ban advertising by the clinics and limit how much pain medicine can be dispensed at one time...
...Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should be up to the families of the fallen to decide whether the press should be allowed into their private moments. Approximately 55% of families agree...
Laws prohibiting "hunter harassment" have been passed in all 50 states, having proliferated at the behest of sportsmen organizations from 1982 to 1995. (In 1994 a similar restriction was added to the federal criminal code.) Many of these laws ban the use of physical conduct to impede a lawful hunt, such as banging pots and pans to scare off prey or taking a blowtorch to a hunter's crossbow. But other provisions have sparked outrage over First Amendment rights and have subsequently been struck down by judges for hindering hunting opponents' freedom of speech. (See the top 10 animal stories...