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...Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...
...What might otherwise be an unremarkable case about public decency has become a cause célèbre for Italy's gay rights activists, who see the decision to push ahead with the prosecution of the case as blatant discrimination. "Homosexuality is being punished," said Aurelio Mancuso, head of the Arcigay association, "not an obscene...
...like the SEC: In 1998, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed regulating the burgeoning derivatives market, the banking lobby, with some help from hedge funds and investment banks, quickly thwarted the measure. And Cox's predecessor at the SEC, William Donaldson, encountered stiff opposition when he tried to push more pro-shareholder measures and subject hedge funds to more oversight. When a court struck down Donaldson's hedge fund registration rule, Cox announced that the SEC would not seek to appeal the ruling - he took the same no-appeal tact when a court shot down an SEC effort...
...midst of continuing our push for legal marriage and the ability to join the military without being hidden, a commitment to gender liberation is the goal that asks more of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. It asks more than many of us are currently doing to support the full participation of transgender people in the movement. It asks more than we are currently doing to consider their rights and freedoms as important as the desire to be able to partner with people of the same gender. It asks—it demands—more than the organizations that lead...
...Ultimately, I don’t care whether every student finds an interesting course to take at MIT—it may be enough for some just to push beyond what they are comfortable with in the Harvard course catalog. But I do care that it seems that only economics concentrators are willing to spend a little extra energy to enhance their learning. I hope the rest of you prove me wrong this year...