Word: severing
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Mathematician Thomas Donaldson, 46, of Sunnyvale, Calif., believes that science will eventually make immortality possible, and he wants in on it. Last week he asked a state court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures, science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than...
...exclusion of gays and lesbians. But formal statements are merely words. When the Council meets again on Wednesday, it should take decisive action to protest homophobic discrimination in the armed forces, and more specifically, in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). The Council should recommend that the Faculty sever completely all direct University ties to ROTC. The Council should not, however, take the extra step of recommending that the University refuse to accept ROTC scholarship money...
There are big parties in Boylston, Sever and Straus...
...objections to ROTC were picked up at MIT last week, as 1500 students and faculty members signed a petition calling for the school to "sever all ties" with ROTC by 1994 if it continues to deny scholarships to gay students...
Harvard's Faculty Council is currently debating whether the University should sever all remaining ties with ROTC. Specifically, the Faculty's steering committee is considering whether ROTC should be able to continue holding occasional meetings in Harvard rooms, recruit at career forums and hold special Commencement Exercises...