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...during the 1980-81 school year. This April, Harvard announced that it would amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity,” responding to student activism for transgender rights. At Commencement 25 years ago, the Class of 1981 marshals distributed letters to graduates pleading with them to withhold donations to the College until the Faculty of Arts and Sciences reversed its refusal to adopt a policy of nondiscrimination toward gay students and faculty.For an institution now noted for its liberal thinking and tolerance, the atmosphere at Harvard then for gay people...
...upon for distraction at all hours of night. And when those are exhausted, message boards can do the trick. Of course this is just a short newspaper article; if this gets in too late, or never at all, a big advertisement (or The Crimson’s magnificent open letter to the readers) can take its place. It’s not as easy when you’re starting on a 20-page essay two days past its deadline. Some people I’ve talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion...
...when its convoy of four humvees was attacked by an IED. The explosion killed Miguel Terrazas, 20, a beloved member of the unit, who was driving the fourth humvee. Terrazas had a record of being cool under fire. His brother Martin reports that Terrazas once earned a letter of commendation for singling out--and killing--a bombmaking insurgent in a roomful of sleeping children. Another time, from a distance of about 200 yards, he killed an insurgent armed with an AK-47 who was standing next to a boy about age 4. "He was a great shot," says Martin...
...take to the intellectual life at Harvard.”NEWSPAPER ETHICSAfter graduating, he served as a platoon leader for the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan.When he returned from military service, Bingham interned at CBS, pursuing his love of television. Edward R. Murrow praised young Bingham in a letter to his parents. “If you and your wife are not inordinately proud of your son, I shall take steps to excommunicate you,” he wrote. “While listening to your boy, I kept hoping that mine who is now 13 will turn...
...Cambridge tickets I got I didn’t pay.”Still, some undergraduates complained that the enforcement amounted to a vendetta against student motorists, driven by angry Cantabrigian natives and a hostile local police force. Louis Altman, then a student at Harvard Law School, sent a letter to the Cambridge Police Chief detailing his claims of police discrimination. Only cars belonging to students or those with out-of-state plates were ticketed, he claimed, which violated “a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws...