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...writes in an e-mail. “Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm...
...million of federal funding annually. In his written opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts ’76 dismissed both the arguments made by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—of which Harvard is not a part—and those offered in an amicus brief signed by more than forty HLS faculty. While FAIR argued that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional because it inhibits universities from exercising their right to speak freely, HLS faculty offered a statutory argument, contending that HLS currently affords military recruiters equal access to its resources by requiring the Armed...
...interpretation during oral arguments in December.Howard J. Bashman, a Pennsylvania attorney who filed a brief supporting the government’s position, said that “the court typically allows the parties to decide the issues that are presented in the appeal, and would not allow those in amicus to interject issues into the case.”He also said that he thought the statutory argument was an poor strategy on two grounds. First, he said, the law school professors’ brief “made it seem as though the constitutional challenge was weak...
...records compromises our ability to investigate and report on issues of sexual assault and racial profiling, among other matters on the Harvard campus. The way in which HUPD has impaired our freedom to report has reverberations far beyond the Harvard campus. Many other student press organizations filed amicus briefs on our behalf, including the Student Press Law Center, the Heights Newspaper at Boston College, the Brown Daily Herald, the New England Press Association, the Society Professional Journalists, the Associated Collegiate Press. We are grateful for that show of support, particularly because it underscores the national significance of the problem...
...acknowledge the amicus briefs filed in support of The Harvard Crimson by (1) the Student Press Law Center, the New England Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Collegiate Press, The Heights, the Brown Daily Herald, and the National Police Accountability Project of the National Lawyers Guild; and (2) James K. Herms of the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy, and Security on Campus...