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Mystery shrouds honors reevaluation

NOBODY LIKES to be talked about behind his back. So why does the faculty think they can do it to students without insulting us? That's right, while we're all caught up in midterms and various spring activities around Grounds, professors at the Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee meeting were discussing the students and our supposed grade-grubbing ways.


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Advice column meets with complaints, confusion

HAPPILY, reader correspondence picked back up last week, so in this column I'll focus on your questions, criticisms and suggestions. Who's that Girl? One reader noted that we still seem to have trouble properly identifying or labeling people in photographs.


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Black gold has harmful hold on U.S.

IN A LANDMARK Supreme Court decision last Tuesday, March 21, the justices ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the proper authority to regulate tobacco as a drug.


Opinion

Don't baby sit self-governance

THE UNIVERSITY has a kindergarten teacher masquerading as a Dean of Students. Listening to Dean Penny Rue's speech to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society last week, it was apparent that she views student self-governance as something to be relegated to unimportant issues.


Opinion

Liberty fuels right to burn flag

I WILL never forget the last six words of the Pledge of Allegiance: "with liberty and justice for all." I was 9 years old when I first pondered the actual meaning of the short phrase my peers repeated so mechanically every morning.


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Or flimsy band-aid?

IN PRESSURING school administrators at Tufts University to allow coed dormitory rooms for gay students, senior students Carl Sciortino Jr.


Opinion

Tuition freeze chills quality education

PRICES go up -- it's a simple concept, and one most people grasp on a basic level. The average person may not understand the finer points of inflation, but he certainly is aware that the prices of everything from eggs to automobiles to college tuition rise a few percent each year.


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