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...wave of student activism on Burma at Harvard,” Billenness said, according to Simon Billenness, treasurer of USCB. Harvard students have in the past been active in promoting democracy in Burma, according to Billenness. In 1996, Harvard students successfully persuaded the University Dining Services to grant their soft drink contract to Coke instead of Pepsi, in criticism of Pepsi’s business operations in Burma. Coke itself is now the target of student activists at Harvard who allege that the company violates the rights of workers in Colombia...
...similar study 20 years ago. "I'm not certain how the children can monitor all those things at the same time, but I think it is pretty consequential for the structure of the family relationship," says Ochs, whose work on language, interaction and culture earned her a MacArthur "genius" grant...
...individual’s religious beliefs [do not] excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate”—let alone a law that does not prohibit such conduct, but merely refuses to grant it a special state subsidy. Based on these cases, then, it seems likely that revoking the state tax-exempt status of institutions that discriminate based on sexual orientation would pass constitutional muster. If discrimination is truly as fundamental to these organizations’ missions as they claim, they would be perfectly free...
...College to develop a “relatively uniform policy” allowing students to live with members of the opposite gender. The Handbook for Students states that the College does not “ordinarily permit” co-ed rooming groups, but that House Masters may grant exceptions if “the configuration of space ensures a large degree of privacy.” The UC’s “Rooming Choice Act” calls these restrictions on co-ed rooming “inconsistent and unfair” because the choice to allow...
...people who have benefited far more than most from the world as it is, we should remember to keep imagining the world as it can be. Archaic institutions, like St. Louis’s police system or any number of Harvard’s sacred cows, survive because we grant them more respect than they deserve.Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...