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...task force on HIV policies, worked with UHS in an effort to get anonymous testing offered. For this we applaud them sincerely. Since AIDS is still a fatal disease that cannot be cured once the HIV virus is contracted, we want to see everything possible done to help combat its proliferation. Anonymous testing is a very important part of this process because it allows people who want to get tested--but are afraid of who will find out--to do so. Knowing is more than half the battle. Too often, contracting HIV is the result of unsafe and irresponsible behavior...
Contrary to what Clinton says, we are not on the right track for education. The President's medicine does not combat the right disease. Dole's prescription is equally inadequate. Neither party accounts for the shamefully deficient institutions that poor students are forced to attend. Does Dole expect quality private schools to spring up in America's urban jungles? Does Clinton believe that schools with asbestos and lead paint really need wiring to the Internet...
Dean Lewis and the house masters must work much harder to combat the depressing and illegally ubiquitious presence of alcohol in Harvard life. Their recent letter overemphasizes the costs of addiction and punishment, continuing a fruitless, heartless crusade to scare students out of drinking...
However, the administration is wrong to pursue an overly strict alcohol policy. Students who drink responsibly help to combat the idea that you must be drunk to have fun, as well as demonstrate the healthy consumption of alcohol. In doing so, they inject some much-needed maturity into the community. Administrators who really cared about the role of alcohol on campus would respect, not hound, responsible drinkers--whatever their...
...combat the pollution problem, the EPA has filed enforcement actions against seven local governments: Cambridge, Brookline, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Needham and Milford...