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...might think it’s exciting, but basically you sit at home, and watch the news, and call loved ones and friends and people you know and make sure everyone is safe,” said Ziad M. El-Zaatari ’09, who left Beirut for his family’s home in Sidon, a port city 40 miles south of the capital, on the first day of fighting. Two weeks later, he was evacuated by the U.S. military...
These one-day-a-year rules depart from the College’s normally sensible alcohol policies, which primarily emphasize safe drinking and specifically avoid punishing those who seek medical help when dangerously drunk. With BPD on the hunt for drunkards, however, dangerously inebriated students (and their friends) will be less likely to look for official help, compelled by the fear of expulsion from the tailgate or arrest. The harshness of the tailgate’s policy will only serve to erode trust between students and officials, thereby eliminating any safeguards against dangerous underage drinking...
...record doesn't help answer that question. Since 2001, when California enacted its safe-haven law, more than 150 newborns there have been surrendered safely, but at least 160 have been illegally abandoned. The experience has been similar in other states. In the five years before 2001, when North Carolina began allowing the surrender of infants up to a week old, there were 10 known cases of babies who were illegally abandoned and died. From 2001 to '04, nine infants were illegally abandoned and died, while five or six were given up under the safe-haven law. Illinois, which this...
Opponents of safe-haven laws say these statistics prove the statutes don't work and may even increase the numbers of children who are given away. "These laws are persuading women who wouldn't have abandoned their babies in any form to do so," says Adam Pertman of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Even some people who favor legal surrender of newborns are uncomfortable with expanding the law's reach to month-old babies. Los Angeles County board supervisor Don Knabe has lobbied Schwarzenegger to leave California's three-day law intact. He says pushing parents to make...
Somehow Tessa's birth mother found out about it. And giving up her baby gave the child a chance at a good life, at least in the eyes of Donna Leavitt, who with her husband Rob ended up adopting the girl: "I can't help but think that the safe-surrender sign at the fire station helped lead Tessa to us." The Leavitts would love for their daughter to meet her birth mom. But in most cases that is unlikely, since the law allows surrendering parents to be anonymous. "Many of these mothers do not like their babies," says Magnusen...