Word: environmental
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Last year, after we selected Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year, we received scores of letters from readers asking what we as a company were doing for the environment. The answer is that after studying alternatives and talking with the Council on the Environment of New York City, the...
The pell-mell pursuit of profits by businesses has long been a major source of pollution. But could such greed be used instead to help preserve the environment? A growing number of politicians and economists think so, and they have come up with the idea of allowing companies to buy...
In other decisions, such as TLO v. New Jersey and Tinker v. Des Moines School District, the Supreme Court has determined that the educational environment must be preserved, even if it means a slight abridgement of student liberties.
The people who criticize the anti-harassment codes are forgetting another important detail: the reason why the codes have come into vogue. Incidents of racial violence on college campuses--physical violence--have risen sharply in the 1980s. It is in reaction to the increase in violent acts that college administrations...
The University should emulate the Emory code by simultaneously asserting the importance of academic freedom as well as the need for an educational environment in which that freedom can be enjoyed.