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\As a male law student with no discernible skills in either math or science, I admit that I may not be ideally placed to determine whether President Larry Summers' recent comments on women and their relative absence in scientific academia could be construed as offensive.
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Attorney and author Erika Bachiochi spoke about her recent book "The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion," on February 17th at an HLS Society for Law, Life and Religion event. The book, which has received praise from Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics, and Patricia Heaton, a two-time Emmy winner, proposed a different "pro-life" argument: that abortions harm women.
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The 2/3 issue [Record, Feburary 3rd, 2005] photos of ice skating pushed my nostalgia button! At some time during my 1954-1957 sojourn at HLS, one of my scholarship/loan "jobs" was to haul the fire hose out of the dorm, prop it up on a saw-horse, and flood the lawn area (near the world tree) to make ice.
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The Asia Business Conference hosted this past weekend by Harvard Business School represents a positive trend in Harvard conferences. Jointly prepared by students and faculty from the Business School, Law School, and Kennedy School, the Conference drew on the talents and resources of each of these schools to produce an event with speakers and offerings that no one school would have thought of accomplishing on its own.
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To The Editors: I am currently a JD/MBA student in the class of 2006. I also graduated Harvard College in 2000. So I have spent seven years at this University and want to express my discomfort about the attacks on President Summers. With regards to his recent comments and relationship with the faculty, I only know what I've read in the press.
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TO ARMS TO ARMS TO ARMS fellow HLS students! Word has spread, that yet again HLS is planning to jack up tuition for the upcoming year! While general inflation has been running around 3% nationwide, HLS continues its merciless increases, beyond inflation rates, which turn students into indentured servants after graduation! Poverty and debt await each poor graduate, instead of a bright future and wealth.
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I passed by the BAR/BRI table last month and stole a highlighter. I know one of the BAR/BRI reps. She asked me if I was signed up for the gobbledygook reviewomatic for the STPOC3 or some sort of acronym-friendly exam I'd never heard of. I told her I wasn't planning on taking the BAR/BRI class.
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1. I don't think my experiences are unusual, so I'll say from the start that I've never once seen a professor intimidate a student for political reasons or otherwise. After over five years of harboring profound political disagreements with many of my instructors, I've never felt silenced or pressured in any way.
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So, I originally planned to write this week's column on the topic everybody is talking about: the dormant commerce clause; specifically, I intended to catalogue the Supreme Court's recent treatment of state regulations that are facially neutral but have incidental effects on interstate commerce.
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This week marks Valentine's Day, that lovely day of the year where schoolchildren look into their valentine sacks. Some find cards, candy, and saccharine little hearts with saccharine sayings, while others find discarded candy wrappers and dozens of strangely familiar valentines stamped "return to sender.