Word: ordered
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...confirm that Harvard's non-discrimination policy protects students from discrimination based upon belief is, at best, disconcerting. As students we ought not settle for a policy that may or may not protect an individual from being forced to renounce the validity of his or her identity in order to gain membership in a student group. We ought not feel comfortable with a policy that may permit organizations to deny women membership because they hold the "political belief" that they deserve equal rights with men, deny blacks membership because hold the "political belief" that they deserve equal rights with whites...
...planning to proceed with plans to raise unilaterally the portion of each student's term bill that goes to the Undergraduate Council. While this action regrettably does not have the unqualified support of the student body, this fee, payment of which is optional, must be raised in order to provide a substantial level of student-controlled funding for student organizations on campus...
...light of recent resignations and expulsions due to excessive absences, the council decided last month to hold special elections in order to fill open seats in Cabot, Currier, Dudley and Winthrop Houses...
...discussion focused on slavery in the Sudan in Africa. Despite the unified intentions of the panelists, panel and audience members sometimes disagreed over whether there are religious and ethnic origins of slavery in Sudan. They also discussed the utility and ethics of purchasing slaves from masters in order to free them, whether the Sudanese government is complicit in the enslavement of its citizens and what the responsibility of President Clinton is in speaking out on Sudanese slavery...
While some coverage of local crime or tragedies is appropriate, Boston's newscasts are often indistinguishable from the prime-time dramas such as "Law and Order" that precede them, as the stations attempt to create the same type of excitement--and thus garner the same type of viewership--as network programming does...