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President Lawrence Summers’ failure to defend Harvard’s policy against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and to actively challenge the Solomon Amendment, betrays Harvard’s historic commitment to equal rights and shows disrespect for the principles on which the Harvard community is based. His acquiescence in the presence of discriminatory military recruiters at Harvard Law School not only violates the principle and policy of nondiscrimination, but is a particular affront to Harvard’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students...
...signs of positive movement. For example, Wesley Clark going ballistic last Monday on Fox News: “Don’t you dare twist [my] words into disrespect for the men and women in uniform. I love those men and women. I gave 34 years of my life to them. You better take my words the right way… No sir, you are playing politics with the men and women in uniform.” Them’s fighting words...
...pleasure of the “check out.” This is another form of empowerment: in stripping men of the ammo we require to objectify them, women grant for themselves the same public freedom that men enjoy—the freedom from harassment and disrespect. It is the difference between dressing for men and dressing in spite...
...This is part of the disrespect that the University has for custodial workers,” Bartley said...
...Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact, I’m certainly ready to leave Harvard behind. No disrespect to my roommate, but from now on if I live with someone, I had better be dating her. No, the question is not whether I’m moving on from Cambridge, but whither...