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...forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur because they are reactionary. This means the overall process is slow and arduous. For instance, Congress?? declaration of genocide in Sudan was not enough for the University to reconsider its portfolio—six months of pressure from a mobilized campus was needed to put the bureaucratic wheels in motion...
...even without Congress??s somewhat bizarre and heavy-handed creation of an artificial penalty for turning away recruiters, the University’s ambivalence towards the military carries a number of more subtle costs...
Ultimately, the Congress??s policy on gays in the military is unfortunate, but it is the reality that universities must face for the foreseeable future. Harvard should be prepared to work with this reality, in recognition of a broader national interest. Not only is realism the right policy to adopt in principle, it also has the happy side-effect of hastening the end of unreasonable discrimination against gays in the military. If our objections to recruiters are genuinely based on a concern for gay rights, we do those rights a greater service by welcoming recruiters back to campus...
...letter continued that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief authorizes warrantless domestic spying and this authority is supplemented by Congress?? Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF...
...reach graduation.” Villaraigosa also said the federal government has “failed miserably” in supporting the nation’s civic infrastructure. “We have failed, especially in our cities,” he said. “We even see Congress??in the name of preserving tax breaks for the investor class—voting on a $50 billion package of cuts in child care, in food stamps, in medical coverage for the poor and the elderly, in student aid, cuts that will hit the very people whose eloquent...