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...University has set its “high level” objectives, Rapier said. The campaign will focus on the curricular review, efforts to strengthen the College, graduate schools whose missions support public service, and cross-university initiatives like a new focus on the sciences. The campaign will also center on funding for the arts, culture, and humanities, she said...
...case, Crawford vs. Washington, involved a criminal trial in which a videotape was used as evidence against the defendant, Crawford. But because Crawford’s lawyer was not able to cross-examine the videotaped witness, they took the case to the Washington State Supreme Court. There they argued that the videotaped evidence violated Crawford’s right, under the Sixth Amendment, to confront witnesses against him, but the court ruled that the evidence was reliable...
Bond and classmate James Bows, Jr. ’55 wrote, “Some of the onlookers cheered when, after ten minutes, the cross was knocked down, but we are sorry to say that others expressed indignation at its destruction. Minutes later a Negro student passing thru the Yard was hailed with remarks such as might be expected in the Klan-dominated states of the South...
Once the event was made known, the dean of freshmen responded with a categorical condemnation of the students’ actions, as did many students across the campus, including several progressive groups who signed an anti-cross burning petition in March 1952. Yet the effect of the cross-burning, as Bond and Bows wrote, was “a disgrace to the University...
Currently, cars and pedestrians cross the busy Larz Anderson bridge connecting John F. Kennedy and North Harvard Streets. Pedestrians can also use the Weeks Footbridge to the east. But that bridge, built in 1924, fails to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to McGregor—Cooper, Robertson & Partners’ managing partner...