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...case was heard by Nancy Staffier, J., on a motion to dismiss...
Harvard filed a motion to dismiss the Crimson's complaint pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), on the ground that, as a private educational institution, Harvard was not one of the instrumentalities of State or local government whose records were "public" within the meaning of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. A judge in the Superior Court agreed and granted Harvard's motion to dismiss, concluding that the mere fact that HUPD officers were authorized to perform certain functions by State and local police departments did not make them officers or employees...
...located outside their window. Harvard should use some of the magical “mitigation fund” to, at least symbolically, chop off some of the housing fees of those affected by the construction. For those not intimately affected by this particular construction project, it is easy to dismiss my concerns as representative of only a tiny portion of Harvard’s population. The larger issue, though, is the continual blunders on Harvard’s part when it comes to conducting construction. General failure to adequately consult the student body (and even, in many cases, the faculty...
...yesterday’s meeting of the full Faculty of the Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Faculty closed its door to the press and voted to dismiss an undergraduate, a rare event that has occurred less than once a year in the past decade. Citing privacy concerns, FAS administrators did not release the student’s name or the reasons he or she was dismissed, but FAS Director of Communications Robert Mitchell did confirm that the motion to dismiss passed. According to Mitchell, before yesterday the Faculty has only voted five times in the past decade to dismiss...