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Even just passing the Gropius buildings, Woodrow could already tell that campus was unusually empty for the first day of class. He walked past the empty volleyball court and the tables in front of the Hark on his way to Austin without encountering anybody.
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Five members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an anti-gay church based in Topeka, Kansas, were met with chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, homophobia has got to go," by a crowd of HLS students who gathered to protest WBC's message of hate on Friday, March 20.
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FENNO WAS incensed. Just who did his editors at the Record (or the Wrecker, as they obnoxiously insisted on calling it this week) think they were, calling him back from his Caymans holiday so early? Sure, he had missed a few days of classes on either side of Spring Break, but Fenno had always considered those discretionary for 2Ls in the same way that 3Ls could pick and choose whether to ever go to class at all.
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Once again the Record catches up with JESSICA CORSI, our correspondent from the other Cambridge, who is pursuing her LL.M. at that vaunted U.K. institution. This week, Jessica explores Britain's vast security system Everywhere you walk in Cambridge, UK, you encounter sidewalks stamped with notices announcing the presence of closed-circuit television cameras, and if you look closely enough, you might even see the cameras above you.
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Craig S. Altemose '10 has been awarded a $10,000 grant from Brita's College FilterForGood Eco-Challenge. As co-coordinator of Massachusetts Power Shift (MAPS), a student-powered climate change network that represents more than 20 college campuses across Massachusetts, Altemose works to educate Bay Staters about climate change.
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For seventeen years, eight months, and one day, Juan Melendez, a native of New York who was raised in Puerto Rico, lived as a condemned man in a Florida prison, sentenced to die by the electric chair. One day, with no warning from the guards or prison administration, he was sent to a booking office, where they asked him for his name, social security number, and other information.
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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan '86 has been confirmed to serve as the 45th Solicitor General of the United States. The Associated Press reports that the confirmation occurred on March 19 by a Senate vote of 61 to 31. Kagan is the first woman to serve as Solicitor General, and she is widely viewed as a front-runner for nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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This week, a visiting student went missing for eight hours, prompting a school-wide lockdown and the activation of the emergency phone message network on Harvard's campus. After a furious search for the student, including assistance from the National Guard-which was met with disruptive protests by LAMBDA and equally-disruptive, orgasmic cheers from FedSoc-the student was found sitting directly in the middle of the compass that inexplicably graces the middle of the tunnels.
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Scientists emerged from Justice Antonin Scalia's Washington home last night, regretful that they had failed to save the Supreme Court mainstay's time machine. "The unique and near-mythical device that allowed this jurist to see deep into the past is no more," lamented Dr.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced on Wednesday that the investment assets of Harvard University had been seized in order to restore stability to the global financial system. Treasury officials reported that the total amount taken under federal control was just over $30 billion despite losses which accrued to the Harvard endowment during the ongoing financial crisis.