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...School (HLS) to acquiesce to an employer’s willful violation of the school’s nondiscrimination policy or forgo over $400 million of federal funding annually. In his written opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts ’76 dismissed both the arguments made by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—of which Harvard is not a part—and those offered in an amicus brief signed by more than forty HLS faculty. While FAIR argued that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional because it inhibits universities from exercising their right...
...cell product of a human egg and a human sperm is alive. Thus the debate should center around whether we will recognize the rights of the developing fetus. The pro-choice position is easier to maintain, logically and emotionally, when the debate is carried on in a sterile forum of words, whose meanings can be bent or ignored. The inclusion of the Elena pictures forecloses the “potential life” lie and forces even unwilling persons to consider the more uncomfortable question of when the developing fetus has the same rights as you and I. Harvard Right...
...guitarist), recruiting bands from their own campus required a more democratic approach. “We decided there wasn’t a fair way to choose except for setting up some kind of voting system,” Hufstedler says.After the Undergraduate Council volunteered its website as a forum for student voting, Hufstedler and Rhodes sent out emails over house lists and recruited eight bands for the contest. Over the course of 48 hours, approximately 600 students cast their votes and elected five competitors for the battle.Contestants have expressed enthusiasm for the battle. Linus’ drummer Matthew...
...encouraging dialogue between Muslim students and the student body at large.“Because the administration’s response to Islamophobia over the past few years has been overall disappointing, it should fight hate speech with more speech,” he says.DANGER OF MISCONCEPTIONSAccording to The Forum Against Islamophobia & Racism, Islamophobia is defined as “alienation, discrimination, harassment and violence rooted in misinformed and stereotyped representations of Islam and its adherents.” Many Harvard Muslims say students have never had a direct confrontation, but others do sense a menacing undercurrent of misconceptions...
...handful of Catholics in HRCF— hardly anyone double-bills with the CSA. Mostly, the groups stay separate, and considering how similar they are in terms of purpose and rhetoric, they’re surprisingly insular. CSA doesn’t work with HRCF on the annual Veritas Forum, for instance, and HRCF members don’t come to the CSA’s weekly mass at St. Paul’s Church. But student leaders on both sides say their organizations aren’t really that different. Both HRCF and the CSA host regular Bible study...