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CONTRARY TO POPULAR misconception, gay marriage is not a civil rights issue. The traditional connotation associated with civil rights is that of Black America's continuing fight for equality. Gay marriage proponents have relied upon this historical understanding and made a habit of likening the gay marriage movement to the struggle for racial equality.
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IN ANSWERING PROFESSOR Glendon's recent Wall Street Journal editorial asking why homosexual relationships should receive the benefits of marriage when other worthy relationships don't, 167 Harvard students approvingly insisted that "intimate associations ... receive significantly more constitutional protection than other associations suggested by Glendon." Other than the fact that this doesn't answer Glendon's question, it also conflates intimate relationships with sexual relationships in the same manner the Goodridge and Lawrence courts have done.
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Enough to make Adam White a liberal Local activists for PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - created quite a stir on the University campus Monday. Six protestors were arrested in this nearly-nude event. It was staged as part of a global naked protest: "Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur.
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Last Wednesday, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau celebrated the 90th anniversary of its incorporation, another milestone in the long history of this unique student-run organization. The Bureau was established on March 3, 1913 and chartered as a Massachusetts charitable corporation the following year.
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Thirty-five students traveled to Washington, D.C., last week as part of an annual HLS Republicans tradition. The group met with various political, judicial and policy leaders, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia '60, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales '82, congressmen, journalists, Republican attorneys and think tank leaders.
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There's a part of me that wants to acknowledge up front that this review undoubtedly violates most principles of critical distance - after all, aside from being friends, section-mates, and the home band of 2/3 of my Parody band compatriots, Mr. Sparkle is Harvard Law School's resident musical collective of note, and, as such, for me to review them is incestuous at best (after all, I am thanked in the liner notes) - hell, it's just a step away from reviewing my own album (which, truth be told, I'd probably pan).
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Professor Mary Ann Glendon's editorial of February 25th ("For Better or For Worse?: The federal marriage amendment would strike a blow for freedom," Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2004) is commendable for its reasoned tone in a debate that has been characterized by epithets and indignation. But the presence of an ergo, a Q.E.D., or a tenured professorship should not lull anyone into the belief that the premises from which she reasons are any more logical or just than the fire-and-brimstone admonitions of picketers at the statehouse gates.
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THE LETTER TO THE editor this week by the Working Group on Student Experiences that researched and wrote the "Study on Women's Experiences at Harvard Law School" is right that the Study's insight about class participation is important to understanding why so few students dominate so much class time, and why so many students do not voluntarily participate in class at all. But the letter is distressing in that it seeks to downplay, at least to some extent, the focus of the Study on the experiences of women at the Law School.
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Adam White: a good representative of The Record's annoying pomposity. In Response to "My first-hand look at gay marriage" Clarifying findings on Women's Experiences and Difficulties apply to all students
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In its second offense to the Asian American community, a January 26th e-mail sent from a partner at Dewey Ballantine's London office contained an Asian American slur. The e-mail was in response to an offer for a free puppy for adoption, and Douglas Getter, a London-based American in charge of Dewey Ballantine's European mergers and acquisitions practice, sent out a mass e-mail that said, "Please don't let these puppies go to a Chinese restaurant!"
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Two Harvard Law students are about to embark on a legal experience that many lawyers wait years to have a shot at: a civil jury trial. Laura Ferry and Susan Rohol, both 3Ls, have been busy preparing for the upcoming trial, which begins today. As members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Ferry and Rohol were assigned a case that began as a simple eviction action.