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...lists, we would actually have to attend lecture to find out when our next assignment was due. Consulting teaching fellows about a troublesome paper would require face-to-face interaction in office hours, rather than the mundane chore of firing off an e-mail. Perhaps even classes would be fairer as compiling 40-page study guides that offer delinquent students the opportunity to sneak by with a B-plus would be much more challenging to coordinate. Keystroke, click, send—the Harvard soundtrack.But what a liberating relief to be unreachable for a while. Friends often joke about the strange...
...legal talent into evicting them. Many Harvard employees, angry at anti-union campaigns, have complained as well. The seed Harvard has planted with its tenants is starting to bear fruit; a month ago, they began to band together in a Harvard tenant union to complain about abuses and demand fairer treatment. And there are some signs their tactics will work—the most hopeful proof is the experience of the city government in recent months. For generations Harvard ignored the city problems, including those to which they contribute; this year, though, the city won the right to regulate University...
...especially keen to provoke a fight with the faculty but we weren’t willing to abandon our plans either.” The following year, the Review adopted an affirmative action policy that allowed the editors to consider race in selecting its new members. BRINGING IN THE FAIRER SEXIn the ensuing years, the Review has also been criticized for the dearth of women on its staff, a matter left unaddressed by the 1982 policy.“The law review’s current affirmative action policy is directed towards members of traditionally underrepresented and disadvantaged minorities...
...some professors made swift exits. Moreover, none of the College’s greatest accomplishments during the past five years—the creation of a new office to centralize responses to the campus sexual assault epidemic, the revamping of the core curriculum, and the first steps towards fairer wages for some campus workers—were the result of Summers’ efforts, and sometimes met with substantial resistance from him. I hope that in Summers’ absence, the Harvard community will be better able to strive for excellence and constant improvement in the kind of open...
...Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department application and wondered why Alito said he was opposed to Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s promoting reapportionment, which was designed to ensure fairer representation of urban minorities...