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Even those united in the cause of improving schools have trouble on agreeing how best to do so, was the lesson at a Monday panel on integration. The researchers, lawyers, politicians, and activists discussed and debated socioeconomic and race-based school integration, and were far from reaching a consensus.
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On April 9, the American Civil Liberties Union at HLS presented a talk by controversial former criminal defense attorney Lynne Stewart, challenging the audience in publicity materials to decide if Stewart was a "terrorist... or [a] civil rights hero." In 2005, a federal jury found Stewart guilty of providing material support to a terrorist group and of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Last Thursday, South African opposition leader Tony Leon addressed students and faculty from the Law School, the Kennedy School and the College on the subject of South Africa's foreign policy. The event, sponsored by the Harvard African Law Association (HALA), drew a large audience to the second floor of Harkness Commons for the speech and the lively question-and-answer session that followed.
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Dear Editor: Arsalan Suleman describes my quotation of South African Ambassador to Israel Fumanekile Gqiba as "false and misleading." I stand by my quotation. I also happen to have had the pleasure of meeting Ambassador Gqiba personally in Tel Aviv, so I have some idea of what his views are.
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Kurt Vonnegut likely would have viewed the Virginia Tech massacre as further proof that man is unfit for this world. The shooting punctuates an alarming trend in vigilante violence, particularly violence that occurs at school, and highlights the increasing difficulty by which civilized society attempts to protect innocent life.
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Over 35 years ago, in a now-famous study dubbed the Stanford Prison Experiment, Professor Phil Zimbardo showed that ordinary people will do extraordinarily terrible things when placed in the right situation. On April 4, in a filled-to-capacity lecture in the Ames Courtroom, he used the results of that experiment and other psychological studies as a lens through which to view the prisoner abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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In the wake of the AutoAdmit-related events in the past several weeks, the Record is launching a new series entitled "Hot Website." The series serves as a reminder to HLS students that there are many worthwhile, productive, and fun websites on the Internet that can be accessed as an alternative to AutoAdmit and other wearisome message boards.
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Like many of you, I enjoyed debating the limits of free speech in my middle school civics class. Unfortunately, academic discussions could not prepare me for the realities of dealing with free speech issues on a day by day basis as owner of a popular internet message board.
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A century and a half after the Supreme Court ruled that blacks could never be citizens, a host of judges, professors, and students gathered at Harvard Law School to reconsider the case. Last weekend, Professor Charles Ogletree and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute hosted a conference entitled "150th Anniversary of Dred Scott v.
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Ni hao. Ni hen piaoliang. Wo mei your name duo qian. Hi. You are very pretty. I don't have that much money. For a week over spring break, these phrases were more or less the only way for the participants of the 2007 Harvard China Study Tour to communicate with the locals.
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On Thursday April 5, 2007, the Harvard Law School Forum hosted National Rifle Association President Sandra Froman in a discussion entitled, "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms - What is the State of Second Amendment Law". About thirty students were in attendance to hear Froman, a 1974 graduate of the Law School and the second female president of the NRA, speak.