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...While I find some of these behaviors silly, it would be difficult, not to say impossible, to enforce a ban on foolish or silly acts in public, unless they violate a rule in the handbook or the laws of the Commonwealth...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences handbook for students contains two distinct non-discrimination policies: a general policy and a policy specifically directed towards undergraduate organizations. The general non-discrimination policy states that "any form of discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status or disability unrelated to course requirements is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University." The non-discrimination policy for student organizations, however, is noticeably narrower, providing only that "all officially recognized undergraduate organizations" must have "a constitution and by-laws whose membership clause shall...
...Committee on Graduate Education urges GSAS students in its TF handbook to "ensure that such teaching does not impede progress toward the degree," but as the amount of work outstrips these graduate students' ability to keep up, either their preparation for sections or their research is likely to suffer, students...
Currently, most colleges--especially Harvard--are very vague in their handbooks about disciplinary procedures, which exacerbates the problem even more. Without specific guarantees in the handbook, universities have the ability to interpret and modify their procedure depending on the specific case; its application may not be uniform across the board to every student...
...body such as Harvard's Administrative Board has the power to ignore its own rules, then it becomes virtually omnipotent. If a university need not abide by the process that it sets down in its own student handbook, then those regulations and guarantees aren't worth the paper they're printed...