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...with plaques commemorating thousands of Old Etonians killed in service to their country. The physical setting complements other kinds of apartness the school fosters. Not just the uniform of white tie and black tailcoat, vest and pin-striped trousers, but a collection of customs and slang whose mastery confers membership in the brotherhood. Teachers are "beaks," the three school terms are called "halves," "wet bobs" are rowers, "tugs" are the 70 especially bright King's Scholars, who live together in a house called "College" on reduced fees, as stipulated by the school's founder, Henry...
...cites two cases from early in his career among his proudest moments as a lawyer. At age 28, as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund, Harper argued on behalf of black Little Rock, Ark. residents seeking membership in an all-white club. He took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?...
...think it would be valuable for everyone if we were affiliated [with the HAA]. Our missions are the same,” he says.The organization, founded in 2001, currently has about 200 members, drawn from all of Harvard’s schools. Hegazy says he anticipates a membership spike in the next few years, resulting in an HAAA membership of 2,000 to 3,000.“Ethnicity is one thing that is with us our whole life, and especially for Arabs it affects us consciously everyday,” Hegazy says. In addition to outreach within the alumni...
...rescinded that endorsement before the campaign’s end after the most serious of the accusations came to light. The UC began the spring semester with the annual debate about finding “discriminatory” student groups, defined as any organization that in any way restricts membership or officer-ship on the basis of a long list of attributes, including sex and religion. Such had long asked for, and had occasionally been granted, suspensions of the UC’s bylaws to allow their public events’ to be funded. When legislation that would allow events...
...will always be primarily for the membership itself, to have internal events and hang out in,” she said...