THE OVERARCHING ideology of our day calls University students to rise above individual idiosyncrasies and opinions in order to engage with and learn from those who are different from us. Yet University students, progressive as we are, cannot help but hold on to some of our prejudices, especially when asked to embrace students whose political creed opposes our own. This impulse, usually wrapped up in the private lives of individuals, just became a little more visible through a recent Student Council decision regarding the status of a new Contracted Independent Organization.
A group of precocious and energetic first-years thought of creating a CIO, deemed the
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