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...mere presence on campus does not violate a law school’s right to associate, regardless of how repugnant the law school considers the recruiter’s message.”Throughout the legal battle, Harvard University has largely remained on the sidelines, only formally entering the fray last fall when it joined a friend-of-the-court brief supporting FAIR’s case. But faculty members took a more active role, and last fall, 40 Harvard law professors filed their own brief in the case. In yesterday’s opinion, the court singled...
...Bureaucrats are really unprepared to make these sorts of decisions, and Summers never should have tried to dictate what counts as “acceptable” academic work (à la the Cornel West scandal). If the Corporation selects a new president who stays out of the academic fray, our problems will be gone. But quarantining our problems won’t solve them; if Harvard is to grow, academics and administration cannot help but intersect. Increasing international opportunities, channeling more research funding into the sciences, and coordinating academic work across disciplines and schools requires exactly the support...
...public for the first time regarding his resignation, he was greeted by a crowd of undergraduates. A reluctant Summers—not knowing whether he was about to be lauded or lambasted—gingerly approached one student and shook his hand, then a second; soon dozens joined the fray of admiration. Students believe in Summers’ vision...
...with the EPA that its factory "opacity," or the amount of light blocked by emissions, was too high. They turned on a newly installed filter system in January, although they have yet to receive a final OK from the EPA. Rick Blommer has tried to stay out of the fray. "I'm just going to make chocolate," he says. Skinner can only wish that everyone was as even-keeled about the controversy. As he puts it, "we do feel a bit like the Grinch...
...Entering Friday night’s contest against Brown, the Harvard men’s hockey team had won one of its last five. It was time to put some pucks on net—and high time for some bodies to follow the discs into the fray. “It’s nice to make the backdoor passes and pretty plays,” junior winger Ryan Maki said. “But the best opportunity is when we shoot the puck.” And so, when he skated the puck up to the right edge...