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...such proposals is much influenced by the form that such a project might take. One could conceive of the Center as a physical facility serving some sort of cultural and recreational resource, nominally open to all students but effectively used almost exclusively by minorities. I would not want to forbid this type of facility any more than I would wish to deny the right of any group of students with similar interests or backgrounds to gather together informally in pursuit of common interests. On the other hand, I do not advocate investing Harvard's resources in such a project...
Another opponent of the law, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, would like to change the act so that the Justice Department could forbid a proposed local law only if it can prove there is an intent to discriminate. As the current law was written, the department had to show only that a change would have a discriminatory effect, whether intended or not. Argues Hatch: "I do not believe a community ought to be labeled a civil rights violator unless there is some wrongful motivation on its part...
...Students Association (GSA) did not get from the Faculty Council quite what it wanted--adoption of a proposal calling on the University to forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Instead, the council this week agreed to discourage harassment against gay people on campus and to reaffirm non-discrimination in admissions policy. Although the council took no formal vote on the proposal--for which GSA members lobbied at the council's meeting last week--a straw vote showed broad support among council members for including a statement in material distributed to potential applicants to the College saying that Harvard...
...find something profitable to make from whey, the liquid part of milk left behind in producing cheeses. For every pound of cheese there are 9 lbs. of whey, or nearly 40 billion lbs. in America each year. Half has industrial uses, but half goes to waste. Environmental laws forbid dumping it in rivers. So some major cheesemakers maintain vast, costly, smelly lagoons of decomposing whey...
Yamani has requested that Harvard forbid outside reporters from covering his speech, which will be followed by a question and answer session. Meyer said yesterday...