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...recent years, Yale has been one of the most prominent universities to consistently turn down money. About two years later, the Daily News reported on gay rights activist Larry Kramer's unsuccessful bid to establish a chair in gay and lesbian studies. Kramer, a 1957 Yale alumnus, also offered to build a gay and lesbian student center. Yale's answer...
...This was the first rally organized by the anti-slavery group that was founded in 1993 by Jacobs, Mohamed Athie, an African Muslim and former diplomat from Mauritania, and David Chand, a South Sudanese Christian activist...
...disparagement; she has received little else from her own people in the nine years since she married the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The latest scandal, though, provides a new low, with her husband's office compelled to issue a statement disavowing her. Even Suha's mother, activist Raymonda Tawil, took the opportunity to throw a punch: "She is so independent," Tawil told Israeli TV. "She has proved [she has] no mother, no husband. 'I am Suha...
...rumored "closet conservatives" on the Harvard campus, University Professor Cornel West '74 enjoys a high degree of popularity among students. His fiery sermonizing lecture style leads students through Afro-American Studies 10, while his support of campus progressive movements such as the Living Wage Campaign lends tangibility to his activist ideals. West is one of the rare highly regarded intellectuals who actually makes time for interacting with his students. However, despite his popularity on campus and intellectual standing in general, it would appear as if certain conservatives such as David Horowitz have nothing better to do than trash Cornel West...
...Rawlins, vice-president in 1996-97 and president in 1997-98, furthered Hyman's work to make the council more activist. During her time in student government, the council spoke out on same-sex commitment ceremonies in Memorial Church and lack of women and minorities in the faculty. One major thing she did gain from her experiences was a sense of connections: "That sense of direct accountability and the excitement that came with moving toward our common goals continues to inspire me." Rawlins currently works for a new family foundation in Boston...