Word: basic
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...next time that you go into a public bathroom, think about the difficulties that many Harvard students, faculty and staff face while doing something so basic. Show that you disapprove of Harvard’s gender-segregated single-stall bathrooms by only using gender-non-specific bathrooms for just one week. All students, faculty and staff have a right to use bathrooms without the threat of harassment, discrimination or embarrassment...
Walking past the counter-protesters, I was struck by the extent to which I agreed with some of their basic messages: Babies are very cute. Human life is a beautiful thing. Women need support if they make the choice to bring a baby to term. Our religions want us to make morally informed decisions...
...While Harvard keeps getting richer...its workers continue to be denied basic rights like full-time jobs, job security, and union representation,” the flyer said. “Over the past year, Harvard workers have been subject to numerous attacks by the Harvard administration...
...vote more than once, physically break into the machines by picking their locks and alter vote totals by dialing into the Diebold server used to relay tallies from precincts to state election officials. The computers that were used to receive results from the precincts had not been given basic security upgrades, leaving them vulnerable to viruses like the notorious Blaster worm. "It's not as if they didn't think enough about security," says Wertheimer. "It's as if they didn't think about it at all." Before the primary, Maryland didn't have time to do much more than...
...delaying the rotations of soldiers who were supposed to be home by now and sending back to Iraq ahead of schedule those who have already gone home. But the admission that in the end more troops may be needed for a longer time than anyone had planned put some basic military issues on the table. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel raised the possibility that a volunteer military may not be sufficient going forward. Pentagon officials remain opposed to restoring the draft, abolished in 1973, confident that an older and more experienced enlisted force performs better than...