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Fund to sponsor civil rights, liberties studies Harvard University and Radcliffe College students and faculty, as well as officers of administration and recent graduates, are invited to apply for grants from a fund established in honor of the late Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe.
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If only there were a Valentine's Day equivalent to Christmas's Scrooge. Yet even if there were one, it wouldn't be an exactly appropriate way to characterize my message. I'm not trying to take the life out of Valentine's Day. I'm just saying that the Harvard University Valentine's Day matchmaking project was (for a lack of a good vocabulary coupled with too much TV) wrong.
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THE LIBERAL Does Anyone at HLS Care About Class? by Matt Wood This biweekly gig is murder. Thank goodness they gave us that surprise vacation last week, because I didn't know what to write about. How can they expect anyone to be so productive? The Supreme Court hadn't issued any opinions in like a month until a couple Mondays ago - and let's be honest, they just make that stuff up.
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"Where do you boys think you're going?" You might think no one would dream of addressing a grown man that way, but that's just how Bryonn Bain '01 says New York City cops and bouncers spoke to him last year when they detained him for a crime he didn't commit.
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If the discussion on Tuesday night was any indication, the Democratic Party has some thinking to do. Out of the Oval Office for the first time in eight years, the party is trying to grapple with both its past and its future in its effort to recapture glory.
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Are athletes more violence prone than the general population? Can athletes get away with violent behavior where someone else would be put in prison? Those are just two of the questions that a panel of well-respected experts tried to answer at the 2001 Sports Law Conference presented by the Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law (CSEL).
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For much of America, the events surrounding last year's presidential election seem a distant memory. Yet on the HLS campus, professors still must face the difficult question of how to address the legal controversy of Bush v. Gore in classes about the courts and constitutional law.
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Calendar Issue: The Calendar Committee has proposed a calendar for the 2001-2002 school year that addresses long-standing student complaints by ending the school year earlier in May. It does so, however, at the expense of any break between winter term and second semester.
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In the February 16 edition of the RECORD, an article titled, "Students work to bring justice in Haiti," incorrectly stated that the featured students spent part of their time working out of Greater Boston Legal Services. In fact, the students involved in the project were working out of the offices of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
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First year students at Harvard Law School have been advised by the Board of Student Advisors (BSA) since 1910, but the way that is done is about to change. Starting next year the school's first-year legal writing program is going to be beefed up by the addition of seven new lecturers, an expanded and more uniform curriculum, and better, more experienced student teachers.
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One of the defining characteristics of modern, mainstream liberalism is its emphasis on “tolerance.” One could accurately say that liberals are zealous for tolerance. This zeal manifests itself in intolerance of those persons or groups suspected by the liberal establishment of not adequately showing tolerance. Liberals righteously denounce those whom they perceive as insufficiently tolerant. One major target of liberal ire is orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christians are those who adhere to the traditional tenets of Christianity.
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Dean-designate Elena Kagan held a town hall meeting on Thursday with over fifty Harvard Law School students. While the crowd only half filled the Austin East classroom, it was clear these students were not just passive listeners, but came with specific concerns about curriculum, student accommodations, exams and grading.