This year's Student Association elections have proceeded smoothly, with few candidates promulgating issues against other candidates. This, however, is juxtaposed with the complaints, bias and ineptitude of the election's oversight body, the Joint Elections Committee.
During a recent phone conversation, my boss asked me if I had seen the anti-abortion advertisements that have been exploiting public spaces all over the District. "What happens when it's been nine months and you or someone you love is on the table and their life is endangered and suddenly you don't have the choice to save that person?" she asked.
For some four months now the debate has raged - in classrooms, coffeehouses and wherever else us liberal-intellectual types supposedly congregate - over how and why John Kerry did not take the oath of office on January 20. The past election not only touched off concern about the Democrats inability to beat Bush, but the lack of success in Congressional elections as well.
Most members of the University community look at anti-discrimination policies and feel secure knowing that anyone who might treat them as inferior will be deterred from prejudicial statements and face consequences for acting with bias. These policies represent a promise that GW makes to students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the campus: that if a situation arose, the University would rule in favor of a student whose grade had been lowered because the professor didn't think a woman should become a scientist or reconsider the application for employment of a professor denied a job because he is blind.
GB housing I would have thought that more aspects of GW's 'GWorld' revolve around the 'G8's' free market system. Housing selection, which operates on a lottery system, is unnecessarily restricting. Why, for example, should I not be able to trade my lottery number with someone who is moving off campus? Or with someone who is rooming with a person with a better lottery number? These questions may have legitimate answers, but after a call to the CLLC office, I am doubtful.
Vol. 106
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