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...Although a potential individual donor may practice safe sex, persons who have participated in high-risk behaviors are, as a group, still considered to be at increased risk of transmitting HIV,” according to the FDA’s website. Along with the Red Cross, two organizations??the American Association of Blood Banks and America’s Blood Centers—issued a joint statement last week that called for an end to the FDA ban. “The current lifetime deferral for men who have had sex with other men is medically...
...prohibit such conduct, but merely refuses to grant it a special state subsidy. Based on these cases, then, it seems likely that revoking the state tax-exempt status of institutions that discriminate based on sexual orientation would pass constitutional muster. If discrimination is truly as fundamental to these organizations?? missions as they claim, they would be perfectly free to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, and forgo special tax treatment. With the extra tax revenue thus collected, Massachusetts could augment its non-discriminatory state-run adoption services more than enough to compensate...
...social sector—which includes non-profit and non-governmental organizations??has gone through a dramatic revolution over the last 25 years, growing two to three times as quickly in the United States as other industries, William Drayton ’65 told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last Friday. Drayton, a Rhodes Scholar, former Kennedy School professor, and Harvard Law School alum, spoke about Ashoka, an organization he founded in 1980. Ashoka—a social entrepreneurship group—is Drayton’s answer to close...
...annual performance of “Sex Signals.” Additionally, we work with each house’s Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) team to conduct at least one educational outreach program per semester in every house. We have also partnered with numerous, diverse student organizations??like the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), the Harvard Foundation, the Association of Black Harvard Women, and Kappa Kappa Gamma—to cosponsor educational events and outreach. Our goal is to continually extend and improve our outreach to every Harvard College...
There remains, however, the cohort of student groups who currently hold precious office space in the basements of Yard dormitories. These organizations??including the mammoth Harvard International Relations Council (IRC)—will be evicted once the renovations of the Hilles are complete. Understandably, the IRC and other basement-dwelling groups are peeved at being kicked out of their central locations and forced to move to the distant suburb that is the Quad. They complain that the conversion of their basement offices into, among other things, social space for the freshman class—as has been...