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...order to promote risk-taking and a willingness to speak, CampusTap follows a model popularized by the Facebook. The site allows blog authors to easily restrict their audiences to those with harvard.edu email addresses, or even to specific people—a blocking group or the board of a student organization, for example. In this way it creates what Katz refers to as a “walled garden”—a safe place amidst a sea of unfriendly or unwanted outsiders...
...policy prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the armed forces.The decision ends more than two years of litigation over the Solomon Amendment, a law first enacted by Congress in 1994 that permits the secretary of defense to withhold most forms of federal funding from schools that restrict military recruitment on campus.The Pentagon has told Harvard officials that if the Law School were to maintain its nondiscrimination policy and exclude military recruiters, the entire University would lose over $400 million a year in federal funds.Last fall, Law School Dean Elena Kagan bowed to those Pentagon threats, granting military...
...ruling ends more than two years of litigation over the Solomon Amendment, a law first enacted by Congress in 1994 that permits the secretary of defense to withhold most forms of federal funding from schools that restrict military recruitment on campus...
...Which of course is what makes it so politically risky, given an ambivalent public that prefers to restrict abortion than ban it outright. It is almost a mirror image of the challenge faced by abortion-rights activists when they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions...
...stability, but also to maintain the peace and security of the House, Eck said. “We don’t want Lowell House to be a traffic corridor for students from other river houses,” she said. Earlier this fall, Eliot House masters elected to restrict inter-House dining in Eliot closely following the opening of an additional gate. While Eliot House Master Lino Pertile said that while the opening of the gate may have caused crowding in the dining hall, he insisted that “it has been a great success...