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Despite increased awareness of environmental issues generated by “green” campaigns, policy on environmental change is moving slowly, according to three environmental experts who spoke at a panel hosted by International Relations on Campus in coordination with the Environmental Action Committee last night in Sever 113. The three experts tended to agree that the sluggishness on environmental policy derives from both discord among international powers and differing perspectives on how to handle the body of current environmental knowledge. Regardless of the fact that activists have been “yelling” about environmental issues...

Author: By Laura C. Schaffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Talks Climate Policy | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Mayo's bill has won him plenty of enemies among the illegal immigrants I spoke with. None knew him personally, but they spoke of him with equal parts fear and resentment. "That is the man who started this racism," says Margarito's uncle Ramn. "He is the Deceiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Mayo's supporters are just as impassioned. At a February demonstration against Mayo's law, a passel of counterprotesters, VFW types in trucker caps, spoke reverently about "Pastor Mayo" and the movement he started. Mayo didn't show up for the demonstration because he - shrewdly - didn't want to be seen as endorsing the idea that his opposition to illegal immigration is necessarily an attack on Hispanics in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Visiting professor Jonathan N. Lipman ’69 spoke to a room of 30 students last night in the Lowell Junior Common Room about the striking diversity of Islam in China, as part of the ongoing Eighteenth Annual Islam Awareness Week. Organized by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), the week consists of five days of events—from April 6 to April 10­—that aim to inform the Harvard community about the practices, beliefs, and cultures of Muslims on campus. According to HIS president Na’eel A. Cajee...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Talk Kicks Off Islam Awareness Week | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Administrators had shown “quite a bit of ambiguity,” she said, because they had not heard from the Finance office what would be possible for J-term when they initially spoke with UC representatives...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Calls For More J-Term Housing | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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