Word: hls
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Shuttle buses had been running without necessary “jitney” licenses since October, when the Harvard Law School (HLS) shuttle began offering round-trip service for $40 between the Square and New York, according to Richard V. Scali, executive director of the Cambridge License Commission...
...none of these events reveals more about our attitudes towards racial issues—and the shortcomings of those attitudes—than the controversy that erupted at Harvard Law School (HLS). The story is too complicated to tell in full here, but the heart of the hurrah happened like this...
Reaction was fierce. An e-mail from HLS administrators called the events “appalling things.” The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) organized a protest and, in a statement published in the Harvard Law Record, demanded that Scholl and Camara be disciplined...
...eyebrow-raising that HLS administrators seem willing to acquiesce to these demands. According to last week’s Harvard Law Record, Scholl was referred to the administrative board. (“We have a policy that e-mails should not be anonymous,” says HLS Dean Robert Clark—as though what Scholl wrote had nothing to do with it!) And although Nesson says his decision to step down—which he made in discussions with Dean of the J.D. Program Todd Rakoff ’67—had “a collaborative...
Nobody is asking HLS to turn a blind eye on racial concerns. Nobody is claiming that BLSA was wrong to air its grievances. But these matters are not a stark opposition of black and white. Offense comes in many shades. We would do well to spend less time taking offense and more time trying to understand just why we are offended...