Word: acceptibility
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...organizations and the diversity of views which those organizations represent. Organizations do have a right to be selective in their membership, especially when the group is based on traditional religious beliefs. However, such organizations, so long as they are funded and recognized by the university, must be willing to accept students with differing views active participants, members and officers. The university should be a strong voice for inclusion and tolerance. If the university does not support such a policy, organizations can easily slip into narrow-minded dogmatism and the open dialogue which a university ought to provide becomes untenable...
...Supreme Court case, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Friday, showcased more complex issues of constitutional law. The court agreed to accept the case after Bush appealed a Nov. 21 Florida Supreme Court ruling which held that Florida Secretary of State Katherine L. Harris had abused her discretion in deciding to reject vote totals that some counties wanted to include after Nov. 14 filing deadlines...
...decision. A recount of about one-sixth of the ballots had found 156 new votes for Gore, and if the county would just finish the job, Gore believed, it could provide him the margin he needed. Gore planned to contest the county's decision and told people he would accept a bipartisan "master" to oversee a recount; but that would involve days and days of counting and a new deadline for a final tally. "The tragedy is we have truth on our side," said a top Gore adviser, "but time...
When Bellah was a graduate student, Bundy told him that he would have to name names of his associates in the Communist Party in order to retain his fellowship. Bellah left the University for Canada rather than accept the conditions...
When the College wisely severed its ties to final clubs in 1984, it continued to implicitly accept their behavior by refusing to crack down on initiation week. The line on final clubs from former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was always the same: we don't like them, but we have no jurisdiction over them. Well, initiation week is the time of year when the boundary lines become blurry. The mock protests on campus property and the drunken initiates stumbling around in Houses late at night are both clear incursions of the initiation process onto Harvard proper...