Word: bans
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...Dershowitz has urged Harvard to adopt a policy to ban any faculty from speaking at places that discriminate while representing the school in any official capacity...
...late-winter announcements of a tuition increase. This, however troubling for families that already struggle with the term bill, was still something that must take place for academic goals to be preserved. This mixing of goals was also apparent in the extending of Harvard’s temporary ban on transfer applicants, when lack of adequate housing ruled out the chance to accept students from a very valuable pool. After all, along with the tuition hike came increased financial aid, one area of University spending that we believe should be prioritized above all else, and thankfully continues to that students...
...There was even a failed proposal in 1984 to ban alcoholic drinks larger than 16 oz., which, if passed, would have eliminated the Hong Kong’s 30oz. scorpion bowl—an ambiguous but eternally popular blend of liquor and juice...
...tides were turning again. In October, Governor Dukakis ordered an increase in the number of roadblocks in Boston and Cambridge in an attempt to reduce the number of drunk drivers. That same month, Dean Epps renewed the ban on alcohol at House functions. Then Assistant Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 told The Crimson in 1983 that the announcement came in response to a perceived inconsistency in the way Houses enforced the alcohol policy...
...communicable diseases in the US. A primary example of the public health impact of cohorts is knowledge about the heart-clogging effects of trans fat, something common in processed foods. Information gleaned in part from Harvard cohorts led to mandatory trans fat food labeling in 2006, and its subsequent ban from restaurants in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Cambridge and California...