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Elizabeth B. Keeney, Leverett House's Allston Burr senior tutor, will be leaving Harvard at the end of the academic year to accept an administrative post at Kenyon College in Ohio...
...pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing and imposition of the death penalty." A midterm assessment of the Bush Administration's civil rights track record issued last week by the independent Citizens Commission on Civil Rights found a similar "pattern of inequity" in death sentencing. Richard Burr of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's capital-punishment project puts it more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide victims. They don't even stay in touch with them." Later this year Congress will consider a measure that aims to enable defendants...
...smoking but in the patronizingly undemocratic implementation of the Adams House smoking ban. While claiming to represent the cause of health and protect non-smokers from "the tyranny of the majority," the staff position ignores the facts surrounding the ban. In her letter to Adams House residents, Allston Burr Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani admits "that the current smoking arrangements do not work; simple observation has also confirmed that they are often ignored. Furthermore, we are not in accord with either the letter or the spirit of the Harvard regulations...
...knew they were an outstanding three-point shooting team," Brown Coach Jean Marie Burr said. "I think they did a nice job sinking the three in pressure situations." Crimson, 101-86 (OT) in Providence HARVARD 43-34-24--101 Brown...
...result, the search process opened up theusually secretive mechanisms of Harvard governanceto students and faculty to an extent that waslargely unprecedented in recent history. Under theguidance of Senior Fellow Francis H. Burr '35, theCorporation sought the broadest input possible,mailing 203,000 letters asking for advice fromstudents, faculty, and alumni. When undergraduatesproved apathetic, individual Corporation memberssolicited their help by holding dinner meetings ineach of the Houses...