Debates articles
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Graduate Student Council debates legacy admissions
GSC councilors debated a resolution that would recommend an end to legacy admissions, and considered the formation of a student-run committee on ethical spending, at its Tuesday meeting.
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Revealing Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative Debates
When former President Ronald Reagan embraced the idea of a missile defense system, he called it the Strategic Defense Initiative. While it ended up being a great success, it was initially attacked by the Democrats, who nicknamed SDI “Star Wars.” “They mocked him, they tried to humiliate him,” Mark Levin explains.“We didn’t have that technology 40-some years ago, and so the reprobates who only think about now, now, now, they said it couldn’t be done,” Levin continues. “During the budget processes...
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The Debate: Have flexible working laws gone too far?
Will new laws allowing workers to "request" flexible hours culminate in the irreparable breakdown of society?