Word: behavior
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...
...while they're at it, the University could issue an even more important ultimatum: admit women or face even more restrictions on events and behavior. If the University is serious about both student safety and women's rights, it should be sending that message loud and clear...
...morality do sometimes overlap, but mostly, the law is an arbitrary set of rules that tries, however imperfectly and even nobly, to make sense of human behavior. The law, as Aaron Burr (who was not a notable upholder of it) once said, is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained...
...neither the Constitution nor federal law gives the legislature the power to name its own electors. The Gore team would like the Court to stay away from this one for now. Bush's lawyers had already asked the Court, while it considered the Florida Supreme Court's pre-certification behavior, to go ahead and plan the endgame as well...
What is the next step in this constant social push of parents and pet owners to keep the behavior of those whom they control as close as possible to a continually narrowing socially constructed definition of "normal?" Will children and their pets soon be engineered from birth not to experience sadness and never chew on the carpeting? Will they be house-trained from birth? Will we suppress their libidos until they turn 21 (in their respective age-counting regimes)? Where does the right of a guardian stop...