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The differing experiences of men and women at Harvard Law School has become a recently discussed issue: a Dean's Forum on gender issues last week; the recent "Study on Women's Experiences at Harvard Law School" is online, with summaries of its findings being put into every Hark Box; and this week's presentation on the report drew a crowd of over 70 people.
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Responding to the recent study on women's experiences at HLS that noted significant gender disparities in classroom participation, academics, student life and career choices, Professors Carol Steiker, Heather Gerken, Daniel Coquillette, OPIA director Alexa Shabecoff and Director of the Office of Student Life Counseling Mark Byers addressed the study in a panel on February 24th.
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"I know it sounds kind of corny, but I knew after working in business investment for a few years that I wanted to be a law school administrator," says the new Dean of Student Services, Ellen Cosgrove. "I thought it would be fun to get back into the mix.
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THE "STUDY ON WOMEN'S Experiences at Harvard Law School" should shock faculty and students alike with its stinging evidence that experiences of women and men at the Law School are not only vastly different, but that these differences are so stark on two things that arguably matter the most: grades and participation.
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RECORD EDITORIAL PAGE Editor and columnist Adam White is publicly defending himself this week against unfounded charges that he may have taken inside information about an upcoming Law Review Note. We believe White effectively defends himself in his column.
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It's not easy being a vegetarian in Cambridge these days. For one, the market for vegetarian food is soft: the much-heralded Life and Light in Boston suburbs closed recently. The fact that it's winter also makes eating out tough - everyone wants a hearty, comforting roast chunk of lamb, not some humane gruel, and restaurant menus reflect that.
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So if last year the Best Picture race turned into a showdown between "Women breaking taboos" (with the one-two punch of Chicago's lethal ladies ultimately vanquishing the troubled triumvirate of Meryl-Nicole-Julianne in The Hours), this year the Oscars seem to be returning squarely to the more conventional tune of "Men in Charge.
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We monitored student participation in three or four courses, but fell asleep before any statistics could be collected. Of the results we did collect, we found that lazy students spoke on average 98% less often than motivated students, and were responsible for just 2% of comments in class.
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UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE, I'VE actually been to a gay wedding. It was about four years ago, when my cousin Michael married his long-time partner Anthony. The ceremony was pretty incredible, in no small part because it was in Maui, on a patio at the top of a 300-foot cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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Past abuses of "diverse" judiciary require present scrutiny. and "Style and substance" of Senator Edwards can beat Bush in November.
Opinion
THIS WEEK I WAS TOLD THAT some at Harvard Law Review suspect that I am a plagiarist. A thief. On Friday, my editor and I received a letter from a member of the Review. He wrote in reaction to my Feb. 19 column comparing Judge William Hastie, a black man "too conservative" for a Kennedy-era Supreme Court nomination, with filibustered nominee Miguel Estrada.