Word: allowed
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...debate about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia and the role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim is simply not true...
However, lawmakers who currently add to their incomes with honoraria for speeches would have to give that up. Current rules allow House members to pocket honoraria totaling up to 30 percent of their salaries, while senators can keep 40 percent...
...where the entire people of Tibet were recently forced to assimilate? Simple. The proponents of the Israel-South Africa analogy are not interested in condemning South Africa. They gear their statements, in the tradition of the 1975 UN resolution, toward the delegitimization of the Jewish state. Whether Harvard should allow such nonsensical lies to gain a hearing at the Divinity School seems trivial compared to the far more dangerous trend of equating Zionism as racism through the Israel-South Africa analogy. Let us not forget the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an ardent supporter of the state...
While most of those who said that lack of diversity was a problem supported a policy of full randomization, some students favored a policy of "non-ordered choice." That alternative, forwarded by students, would allow rooming blocks to list four to six houses in no particular order, and be randomly placed into one of them given available space...
Resisting the temptation to turn their child into an early overachiever, a surprising number of parents are consciously delaying their youngster's entrance to kindergarten even when age eligible. This is known, quaintly, as redshirting, after the common university practice of keeping athletes out of games to allow them an extra year of playing eligibility. To some teachers, redshirting children is necessary because all too many kindergartens are more concerned with academics than with the emotional and physical development of youngsters. To others, the practice is not much better than coddling...