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...banning ROTC from the Harvard campus, “I feel like you’re ostracizing a different type of student, the cadets who are in ROTC,” Williams says. When they wear their BDUs to class on Tuesdays, the cadets say other students often avoid or ignore them. “Some people walking by see you for the first time in uniform and they don’t say anything. Even if they know you, they’ll just walk by. It’s kind of awkward,” Williams says. While...
...floating” in the lottery, the trip to the ’Berg is a solitary one. Though floating seems to be universally dreaded, FM tracked down several contented upperclassmen who flew solo. Tom E. Osborne ’08 went stag last year to avoid blocking drama. “In the grand scheme of things, blocking didn’t seem that important. I didn’t have strong feelings about who I lived with, so I didn’t want another thing to think about,” Osborne wrote in an e-mail...
Though Dershowitz needs to avoid sounding authoritative and values discussion over definitive statement, “Preemption” seems doomed to be forgotten...
...states crack down on "deadbeat dads," men have a greater financial incentive to pressure women into ending unwanted pregnancies. Some threaten to break up with their partner if she doesn't get an abortion. There is concern that violence against pregnant women is fueled by men trying to avoid a financial liability. So Dubay could argue that allowing men to shed their financial obligations for unwanted children might protect women from all kinds of pressure when they are deciding how to handle an unplanned pregnancy...
...freed them from the fear of contraceptive failure. That kind of empowerment and security that women feel in intimate relations - well, men can't, frankly." The only sure protection is total abstinence. Feit contends that men who don't want to have a child and made reasonable efforts to avoid it should at least be able to choose a "financial abortion" that frees them from any responsibility for the baby...