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Crimson foes of the past have always keyed upon covering forward captain Dan Clemente to shut down the Crimson offense. Harvard challenged that assumption against Boston University...
Last week, after a multiple month showdown that culminated in a student takeover of Tufts University's Bendetson Hall, Tufts president John DiBiaggio acquiesced to student demands and issued a letter affirming that Tufts' non-discrimination policy protects students from discrimination based upon belief. Problems of discrimination and policy ambiguities are not, however, limited to Somerville. Indeed, the recent events at Tufts call attention to the shortcomings of Harvard's own non-discrimination policy...
...recognized undergraduate organizations" must have "a constitution and by-laws whose membership clause shall not discriminate on the basis of race, creed [interpreted by the university to mean only religious belief], color, sex, sexual orientation or physical disability." Absent from the latter policy is any protection from discrimination based upon age, national or ethnic origin, veteran status or political beliefs...
Contrary to Lewis' opinion, however, there are good reasons for objecting to a policy that allows student organizations to exclude individuals from membership based upon their political beliefs. Fostering a university-wide atmosphere of intellectual openness, pluralism and tolerance of diversity depends not only on the existence of student organizations representing a variety of different ideologies and viewpoints but also on the willingness of those organizations to allow their ideologies and viewpoints to be openly contested...
...policy that does not protect students from discrimination based upon political belief does more than stifle dialogue, though. More potently, it leaves open the possibility that organizations will regulate membership based upon students' "political beliefs" about the very entities which the non-discrimination policy explicitly protects--race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation and physical disability. It enables an organization to effectively undermine University non-discrimination policy, and to do so legally. As far fetched as this may seem, this is precisely what occurred at, and, until last week, was validated by, Tufts University. There, the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) repeatedly...