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...make their views known; it says a lot to the students when the dean comes out and supports them.”Paik, who is in his third year at Harvard Law, renewed his call for the University to actively support a bill sponsored by Rep. Martin T. Meehan, D-Mass., that would repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”“The burden is on the University to come up with different strategies and see what courses of action it can pursue to protect its students...
...after all these years they don’t do anything, I could see a lot of discontent within the student body arising.”In a statement yesterday, Lambda called for the University to publicly back a bill sponsored by Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., that would repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.Newly appointed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not vote on the case because he was not on the bench when oral arguments were heard in December.—Staff writer Javier...
After visiting a refugee camp in Darfur, Cambridge’s congressional representative called last week for Harvard to divest funds from companies with business ties to the Sudanese government. In an interview from Ghana with the Boston Herald, U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., said the University should “do what’s right” and sever financial connections to the Khartoum regime, which the U.S. government has accused of supporting genocide. This isn’t the first time Capuano has broached the divestment issue. Last April, he asked public pension boards in Massachusetts...
...Thursday morning. Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced that a search of Library of Congress records demanded by Democrats had been completed at 2 a.m. and that no reference to Alito was found in documents pertaining to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) had threatened to push to subpoena the records, which are included in the papers of William A. Rusher, a former publisher of National Review and a founder of the group. Alito, a 1972 graduate, had claimed membership in CAP when he applied to the Reagan Justice Department...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) did not hide his skepticism over those answers, and engaged in a testy exchange with Specter over his demand to see the Library of Congress papers pertaining to CAP. "We are entitled to this information,? said Kennedy. ?It deals with the fundamental issues of equality and discrimination.... I'd want to give notice to the chair that you're going to hear it again and again and again and we're going to have votes of this committee again and again and again until we have a resolution." Specter shot back: "Well, Senator Kennedy...