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When super-lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies went to court last week to ask a federal judge to toss out California's Proposition 8, one might have expected longtime gay-marriage advocates to welcome the move with open arms. After all, not only is Olson, 69, one of the preeminent members of the Supreme Court bar and Boies an acclaimed trial lawyer who famously squared off with Olson in 2000 when they took opposing sides in the Supreme Court's landmark Bush v. Gore election case. But perhaps even more important symbolically, Olson is a former top lawyer...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences still has $143 million to cut from its budget over the next two years.Matthew Meselson, a distinguished MCB professor who has been in the Fairchild building for more than 30 years, took the podium at the last Faculty meeting of the year to ask administrators to reallocate the funds reserved for the renovations, which he said were estimated to cost at least $50 or $60 million. He added that such a move could help avoid some of the most damaging cuts looming over FAS.But University President Drew G. Faust responded by saying that those funds...
...Assistant Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer is drafting an application for students seeking to stay on campus over break and otherwise determining logistics for the period. Ameer said that the bar for accommodating requests is “pretty high” and that the application will ask students why they need to be on campus, who they are affiliated with, and the contact information necessary to verify their affiliation. According to Kidd, the number of students who will be granted housing next January is equivalent to twice the number that can be seated in Annenberg...
...been welcome at Harvard since 1969, when it was expelled from campus following student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Currently, Harvard students who participate in ROTC train at MIT. Unlike last year, when Faust criticized the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”—which bars openly gay people from service and has been cited in recent years as the reason ROTC remains off campus—Faust did not comment on the controversial policy yesterday. But Whitt did touch on the current absence...
...Boarded and you bring a non-member of the board, they sit behind you and can’t speak or participate,” Sundquist said.With the committee’s changes in place, advisors will be able to speak on behalf of students or ask for a pause in the proceedings to allow for a break from what Wong described as sometimes emotionally traumatic hearings. Advisors will also be allowed to see evidence in the case, Hammonds said.SMALLER HEARINGSEfforts are also being made to reduce the stress Ad Board meetings put on students. Currently, students waiting...