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...fight in the House of Representatives between police watchdog groups and private colleges. If the legislation passes the House and is signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, HUPD and other private university police forces would join state and local police in releasing their reports publicly. The bill??s success would also render moot a decision handed down by Massachusetts’ highest court in January, when the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a suit brought by The Crimson against Harvard. The newspaper had argued that private university police are bound by the same public records laws...
...provision for dealing with bylaw changes. (It passed by a vote of 31-0, with four members abstaining, and the rest not casting any ballot.)Therefore, when the Council moved to vote on 62.35, confusion abounded among most council members over how many votes were needed for the bill??s passage: a majority or two-thirds? The parliamentarian, Greenfield, claimed that since any mention of bylaws requirements had been removed from the previously passed legislation, then the Council must follow the most recent rule on the subject, Article 7 of the Constitution, which called for a majority. With...
...unclear whether the College could provide condoms to a class which includes some students under the age of consent. “I’m not convinced [those issues] have been researched fully by Mr. Sundquist and Mr. Shah,” he added, referring to the UC bill??s sponsors. Students seemed to be less divided on the scheme’s merits. “It certainly sounds like a good plan,” James P. Canning ’09 said, although he did not know about the installations until told...
...group meets the UC’s nondiscrimination policies. In both the current and proposed frameworks, the event or project for which a student organization requests UC funds must be nondiscriminatory itself. (So far, opponents of the bill have had to resort to parliamentary tactics to prevent this bill??s passage.) But this proposed expansion of eligible groups has two consequences that are unacceptable. First, it would mean that UC is improperly deferring to another group’s guidelines when it is the UC, as a student government, that should set and adhere to its own rules...
...Transgender Task Force (TTF) will meet with the Office of General Counsel to discuss inserting the clause. Nine years ago, the UC passed a similar resolution calling for the addition of gender identity to the non-discrimination clause, but their requests were met with deaf ears. The bill??s sponsors hope that the national trend in including gender identity and expression in non-discrimination policies, which they say have been adopted at 52 other American universities, will make this effort more successful. “The administration has been pretty much ignoring this issue of fundamental protection...