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...decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled against first-year Harvard Law School student Joshua D. Davey, finding that states are not required to include theology students in scholarship programs...
Northwest College, which Davey’s close friend and fellow Northwest alum Jeremy J. Frank says is sometimes jokingly called “Northwest Bridal College,” doesn’t have that kind of bias. There, it wasn’t unusual for Davey to have married his high school sweetheart, a girl he’d been dating since he was 15, while a sophomore in college. And it wasn’t taboo to challenge the separation between church and state. Indeed, the school recently featured a summary of Davey’s case...
...Davey got a preview of the culture shock awaiting him at HLS when his friend Frank journeyed east two years ago to study finance at Boston College. “I found the overall Boston area to maybe be—I don’t know.” Frank stumbles, searching for the right words. “There was a difference in culture...
...Frank did what Davey would come to do: he found a group of friends with similar ideals, stuck with them and enjoyed himself. Today a large part of Davey’s social circle is made up of the group Frank first found. This kind of self-segregation is the easiest option, Davey says, since the alternative—“coming to a place like this and saying you’re a Christian and worrying that people are going to think you’re an idiot because of that”—isn?...
...Davey does wish he could bridge these social divides. And in this pursuit, he comes back to the matter that brought him to HLS in the first place...