Word: subjecting
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...remains unclear which party stands to benefit from sounding off on the percentage issue. Neither George W. nor Jeb Bush have made much hay of it lately, probably because it's a racially divisive subject. The NAACP and Urban League are firmly against the use of race-neutral percentages - NAACP head Kwesi Mfume recently called the policy "Jim Crow Jr." What's more, this is just the type of center-hugging policy that could drive right-leaning voters to the Reform party come election day. At the same time, it is a difficult policy for Democrats to attack since...
When it comes to first-years who've had too much to drink, Selsby is careful to point out that students are not subject to disciplinary action in situations involving alcohol where a student's health is in question...
...subject these decisions to an external moral, political or religious debate. We require Christian Scientists--who believe that the healing of disease should be performed by spiritual means alone--and Jehovah's Witnesses--who have deep religious convictions against accepting blood transfusions--to pay the entirety of their health services fee, regardless of their religious or personal beliefs. Although it is understandable that students may harbor strong moral objections to abortion, such personal preference cannot be grounds for overturning a professional and medical decision to subsidize a legally-sanctioned procedure...
...while he said that "student voice is definitely going to be heard" on the subject of splitting up usable space, he said he is "not sure" how such a process will work. Illingworth said he could not guarantee students will sit on the committee he plans to form...
...will we time-travel in the next century? Travel to the future--yes, but only in short hops, I suspect. To the past--very likely not. Such travel is expensive, dangerous and subject to quantum effects that may or may not spoil your chances of coming back alive. Those of us working in this field aren't rushing to the patent office with time-machine blueprints. But we are interested in knowing whether time machines are possible, even in principle, because answering that question will tell us where the boundaries of physics lie and provide clues to how the universe...