Word: lambda
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Students placed pink toy soldiers in classrooms Tuesday to protest Pentagon recruitment. And Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, president of the student gay rights group Lambda, said larger protests were slated to coincide with the military’s planned follow-up visits to the school next month...
...threat. But Kagan and over 50 other Law School faculty members filed a friend-of-the-court brief this past January backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of over 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. Also that month, Lambda filed a separate brief endorsing the coalition...
Meanwhile, Tepperman-Gelfant said that Lambda is in negotiations with Kagan to add safeguards to the school’s nondiscrimination policies protecting transgender students...
...three same-sex couples in Hawaii asked Wolfson to take their case. His employer, the gay group Lambda Legal, wouldn't let him, but he was able to advise a local attorney on the side. Three years later, the couples won in the state supreme court. Hawaii voters banned same-sex marriages before any weddings could take place, but the case made gay marriage seem attainable. Within a few years, the Netherlands became the first country to allow it; Massachusetts gays are set to begin marrying...
...professors’ action came on the heels of a brief from the student gay rights group HLS Lambda, which also endorsed the claims of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR...