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...colonial Commencement, the first Latin oration was delivered "in a heavy manner," noted a bored Samuel Eliot Morrison, Class...
...Mathhew T. Ozug, Emma F. Phillips, Benjamin A. Railton and James S.F. Wilson, of Lowell House; Arif N. Nathoo, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Erwin R. Rosinberg and Derek D. Smith, of Mather House; Nadarajan Chetty, Tricia M. Michels and Hannah K.R. Weiss, of Pforzheimer House; Julie M. Lau, Nora B. Morrison, Jason D. North, Dasa Pejchar, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant and Griffin M. Weber, of Quincy House; and Michael R. Grunwald, Jamie L. Jones and Galit A. Sarfaty of Winthrop House...
Luckily an answer to that question is imminent, as it is anticipated that the Court will soon announce its most crucial federalism decision to date in U.S. v. Morrison. At stake: civil rights for women, under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA...
...second argument, 41 states officially registered their support for VAWA when arguments were heard for U.S. v. Morrison in January, with 21 of them placing individually-researched gender bias studies on the record. Much of this testimony was to the point that the civil rights remedy provided by VAWA would be helpful and to state that since victims are allowed to pursue the case through the criminal state courts concurrently with any federal civil case, there was no real sovereignty issue...
VAWA, therefore, has garnered strong support both from Congress and from the states themselves. It deserves the support of Harvard students as well ˆ we should not fail to recognize the significant impact VAWA can have on our lives. The aforementioned U.S. v. Morrison concerns a rape case at Virginia Tech: when denied proper legal proceedings at the university, the plaintiff was able to use VAWA to seek damages. Acknowledged or not, rape and other forms of gender violence constitute a problem that penetrates without compunction the ivy walls surrounding our own campus. Both enduring and watching others endure...