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...ruling represents another rebuff to the Reagan Administration by the high bench, which last term spurned the Justice Department's contention that affirmative action should be used only to remedy harm to individual victims of discrimination. This time the department, which brought the case to the Supreme Court when the troopers declined to appeal, argued simply that affirmative relief must be narrowly tailored, like "hand and glove." Solicitor General Charles Fried denounced the one-for-one quota as "excessive" and "profoundly illegal...
Brown's Disciplinary Review Board is prosecuting the students, one of whom is Amy Carter, for behavior "unreasonably disruptive of the university community" and "behavior which can necessarily be expected to cause physical harm to persons or damage to property," according to a letter the board distributed to the accused students...
...never intended to do any harm. I just wanted to have some innocent fun. It was the '60s and the spirit of adventure was in the air. I had managed to funnel some of the profits from a bustling amyl nitrate trade into real estate, and one of my tenants was a young artist named Andy Warhol...
Another problem arises; many maintain that these clubs are still "on campus." They raise doubts about students "who feel that clubbies don't harm the rest of the campus by partitioning themselves off." Since when does Cambridge constitute Harvard property? These clubs are neither on University property nor University affiliated; they are not "on campus." Exactly how are the presence of final clubs in Cambridge hindering my education or life at Harvard...
President Reagan's plan for increasing American economic competitiveness through renewed federal support of scientific research may do more harm than good, according to lawmakers and scholars contacted this week...