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Recently I received Dean Kagan's annual email regarding military recruiting. In it Dean Kagan explains why she regrets being forced to allow military recruiters on campus. As I read the email, I felt uneasy. Something seemed wrong to me about both its tone and its message.
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Last month, General Peter Pace, the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reiterated his support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," a statute that bars openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual individuals from serving in the military. Speaking before the Senate Appropriations Committee, General Pace opined, "We should respect those who want to serve the nation, but not through the law of the land, condone activity that, in my upbringing, is counter to God's law.
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As if the free coffee, the ice skating rink, and all the other perks Harvard Law students receive from their doting administration were not enough, the Dean of Students Office thought long and hard this summer and added even more to the list of campus amenities.
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Palestinian cinema has proven a powerful tool for motivating and mobilizing those who deplore the current state of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and it is never more so than when it touches human nerves by presenting personal stories of humiliation, aggravation, and loss.
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After weeks of ironing and resume revising Kermit is ready for his first OCI interview, on the last Friday of OCI at 4:30. So many people did multiple interviews but Kermit felt he just needed the one. So he grabbed some coffee and suited up with the half jacket because if it was good enough for the runways of Milan it was fine to interview in.
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Thanks to my Monday-through-Wednesday class schedule, I get to do a lot of weekend traveling. Depending on when you're reading this, I may currently be in Cambodia. And a few weeks ago, I spent a weekend in Malaysia. One of the particularly interesting elements of visiting Malaysia was the fact of being there during Ramadan.
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While OPIA does a great job of informing (and reassuring) students about career paths that don't involve large law firms or OCI, the Record knows that there's one area in which they fall down on the job. For three weeks, 2Ls trot back and forth to the Charles regaling their public interest oriented friends with tales of free flash drives, the odd pair of flip-flops, and, of course, the perennial chocolate covered pretzels.
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Most Friday afternoons, one would be hard-pressed to find a single law student in a classroom on campus. On September 28th, however, Langdell North was filled to capacity with students and professors not only from the law school, but also from Harvard College and even Berklee College of Music.
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When watching the Chapelle Show, many black people laugh at the hilarity contained in the sketches. But, in the back of their minds many wonder, "How are white people going to perceive this? Are they going to get the joke? Or, are they going to really believe the quip is reflective of all blacks?" When it was discovered that the D.
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BY REBECCA AGULE On Thursday, September 27th, the Harvard Law School Program on Terrorism and the Law, along with the American Constitution Society, hosted a debate on preemption, featuring HLS Professor Alan Dershowitz and Georgetown University Law Center's Professor David Cole.
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"The soul of Pakistan," observed Zamir Akram, chief foreign policy advisor to Pakistan's Prime Minister, "is about freedom of choice, tolerance, and liberalism." In an September 26th event sponsored by the Harvard International Negotiation Initiative and the South Asian Law Students Association, titled "Terrorism: Identity, and Moderation: The Struggle for Pakistan's Soul," the Pakistani official spoke on how the country hoped to live up to these ideals.
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Kermit popped a couple of Ritalin so he could stay up working on a revision to his resume before his first interview. He needed to come up with a way to make himself stand out. He had the Harvard name, a healthy variety of grades, a successful acting career and was ridiculously good looking.