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One of the loudest complaints that makes the rounds among HLS' 1L sections every year is the lack of academic feedback. By the time students progress to their second and third years, those complaints are drowned out by a deluge of claims that grading here is "arbitrary" and has little to do with actual learning.
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On December 19 the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy (HCECP) released its recommendations on outsourcing and the Living Wage issue. Thus, another chapter was written in the struggle that has seen thousands from all over the nation call upon the University to recognize its moral imperative to treat low-wage service workers with the dignity they deserve as human beings and full members of the Harvard community.
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The recent spate of hysterical and violent assaults on your three distinguished restaurant reviewers, Davis Wang, Andrew Jacobs and David Bitkower, moves me to defend their good names. I refer specifically to the diatribes by Patrick Chung and Giselle Fahimian in the Nov.
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A Living Wage now In order to avoid being confused for Stephen E. Ambrose, I want to acknowledge from the outset that I am plagiarizing myself in this piece. My words here are substantially similar to those contained in a letter I transmitted Larry Summers on January 9.
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Does abortion empower women? One of the main reasons pro-choicers advocate abortion is because they believe it empowers women. But does it really? The feminist movement seeks to advance the autonomy, equality, respect and biological health of women. These objectives, however, are undermined by the widespread acceptance and practice of abortion.
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Dan Gluck assumed the presidency of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Monday, having been elected by the Bureau's members on January 13th. Gluck succeeds outgoing President Matt Watkins this week. "[Watkins] did so much work," Gluck said. "I just can't say how much Matt did for the Bureau.
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Nationally, the Law School Admissions Council reported that 38,045 people took the December LSAT, a 26.4 percent increase over the previous year. Although the national economy has slumped, Harvard Law School and its competitors have seen a significant increase in the number of applications received.
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When I was a 1L, I joked that I'd rather stand naked in front of strangers than get called on by Arthur Miller in Civil Procedure. I figured that if I could just do the naked-in-front-of-strangers thing once, I could do anything -- even deal with Miller's intense questions.
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Painting the Big Apple red without losing the green Forty bucks and a free weekend can now buy HLS students round-trip transportation to New York City, HL Central announced last week. The organization has reached an agreement with a local bus company to provide pick-up and drop-off service to the law school.
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Cornel West looks to Princeton University President Larry Summers has been working overtime to mend fences with national luminary Prof. Cornel West and other professors in the College's Afro-American Studies department. The Boston Globe and The New York Times previously reported that West and Professor K.
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Exactly eight months after students from the Living Wage Campaign began an almost month-long occupation of Mass-achusetts Hall, a committee examining the University's employment practices issued a report concluding that "Har-vard's current wage and contracting practices for lower-paid service workers fall short of meeting the University's appropriate goal of being a good employer.
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An unexpected alliance between the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Criminal Justice Institute was formed in the Caribbean as Professors Charles Nesson and Charles Ogletree met in Kingston, Jamaica, to work with a progressive prison project called Reverence for Life.