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...Forum at the Kennedy School seems an unlikely site for a rock concert. Nonetheless, the venue welcomed renowned Israeli musician David Broza to its stage March 22 for a night of trilingual folk music called “Concert for Peace...
...among the school’s affiliates about the need for more faculty of color in GSE’s ranks and a greater focus on race in the school’s curriculum.Last Wednesday, hundreds of students and professors congregated in the Gutman Conference Center for an open forum to address how the school should move forward after the departure of Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary Orfield.Orfield, one of the founder’s of the former Harvard Civil Rights Project, moved the project this spring to the University of California at Los Angeles. When he announced...
...year concluding that 61 people died in the U.S. in 2005 after being shocked with a Taser gun. Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said in a phone interview yesterday that no money has yet been allocated to purchase Tasers. The department first made the announcement at a town forum last week. “As of right now, there are no Tasers ordered,” Pasquarello said. “I don’t know if the money is coming in five months or in three weeks. If they come up to us in three weeks...
...work of minorities in the performing arts: “There’s a rich artistic legacy within the black community that has produced defining works of art, whether it’s musically or in theater,” he says. “Having a forum to produce or reproduce these types of cultural expression within the black community at Harvard is very important.” In a 1999 Crimson Arts exposé, Francesca J. “Frankie” Petrosino ’02 delved into the lack of ethnic diversity in the theater...
...discuss, and who can join. In addition to tedious bureaucratic impositions like a parental signature requirement, the law also regulates the content of student discourse by specifically barring clubs that address “human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion and education about sexuality, but, more appallingly, it thinly disguises the legislature’s discriminatory interest in banning gay-straight alliances. Our primary objection to this legislation stems from its brazen attempt to regulate the content of student discourse; such regulation, in nearly all forms, stifles...