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With most gay students on campus feeling relatively safe and comfortable despite a string of homophobic incidents on campus earlier this year, BGLTSA is seeing support for its political activism fading away. At the same time, another organization--BOND--is solidifying its control of organized social activities for gay students...
Kennedy's charge is the latest in a string of sexual-harassment episodes that have plagued the Army. In 1996 male drill sergeants at the Army's training base at Aberdeen, Md., were charged and later convicted of sexually assaulting female recruits. A year later the Army's top enlisted man, Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, was charged with--but later acquitted of--sexual assault. In the past year the service has punished two generals for adultery...
...constrain our predictive abilities. Science's limits are glaringly obvious in particle physics, which, as Steven Weinberg describes [in the Visions issue], seeks a "theory of everything" that will explain the origin of matter, energy and even space and time. The leading theory postulates that reality arises from infinitesimal "strings" wriggling in a hyperspace of 10 (or more) dimensions. Unfortunately, these hypothetical strings are so small that it would take a particle accelerator the size of the Milky Way to detect them! I am not alone in fearing that string theorists are not really practicing science anymore; one leading physicist...
...policing in New York was made possible by a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have increased police discretion and permitted law enforcement agents to circumvent the spirit of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment's assurance of equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing...
...Supreme Court last week upheld an Erie, Pa., ordinance that required nude dancers to wear a minimal amount of clothing--namely pasties and a G-string. The context would be comical, were it not for the serious threat the ruling poses to basic principles of free speech...