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Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of CaliforniaÂÂ-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts??-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...
Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 wants to bring gambling closer to Harvard. He has announced a plan to open three casinos in Massachusetts??€”one for the western half of the state, one for the South Shore, and one for metropolitan Boston, the last of which could set up shop near Logan Airport. Some Harvardians might gasp to think that such vice could soon be only a Blue Line ride away. But such opponents of Patrick’s casino plan must realize the greater good that it figures to do for the Commonwealth...
Rushing, who sponsored legislation in 1996 that banned the state government from doing business with companies tied to Myanmar, cheered Massachusetts??€™ role as one of the first U.S. states to support democracy in the southeast Asian country...
...days before a Harvard medical student was scheduled to take her certification exam, Massachusetts??€™ appeals court temporarily voided an earlier ruling that would have given her extra break time to pump breast milk. Sophie C. Currier, the MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), who is currently nursing a five-month-old infant, will postpone taking the exam until the three-judge appeals panel rules, said her spokeswoman, Alex Zaroulis. Currier cannot graduate from HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour licensing exam. “Things...
...former head coach at Brigham Young, Gary Crowton, paid a visit to Harvard before becoming the offensive coordinator for Louisiana State. Clemson offensive coordinator Rob Spence was consulted while he was the head coach at Toledo. And last year, there was a meeting of the minds with coaches from Massachusetts??€”a team that Murphy says “has a similar defensive philosophy...