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FIREin ‘The Boston Globe’
FIRE’s exposure of the absurd sexual misconduct policy in force at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania has attracted the notice of columnist Cathy Young of The Boston Globe and Reason magazine. In , Young skewers the Gettysburg policy that puts an unauthorized hug on a spectrum with sexual assault, observing, as did ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ, that “because it is impossible to enforce such a policy consistently, it will inevitably be enforced in arbitrary ways. If everyone violates the rules at one time or another, anyone is a potential target for punishment.â€
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FIREstatement on calls to ban X in EU, UK
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