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...military has refused to sign the pledge. Although Law School Dean Elena Kagan granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard was not a part of FAIR, the consortium of three-dozen law schools that filed suit. But Harvard’s central administration joined six other universities in filing an amicus brief in support of FAIR. Additionally, Kagan and 39 other law professors filed a separate brief arguing that Harvard’s practice of holding all recruiters—military or not?...
...comply.Protesting the government’s “selective harassment,” the students wrote in the letter—which was published in The Crimson—that “the imminent deportation proceedings...represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood of the day.”For Rouhani, however, the policy did not result in significant difficulties. He recalls going to the immigration office, where hundreds of other Iranian students were lined up, and having his status checked and approved without incident.No Iranian students at Harvard faced...
...then was refused a one-year extension of her contract. Wright, who is an African-American woman, filed a grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that her request for a contract extension was turned down on the basis of race and sex.Wright dropped her suit after she was offered a position at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African American Reseach in the fall of 1981.Contacted at the College of Wooster, where she is a professor of music and chair of the college’s Africana studies department, Wright denied a request...
...close with the advice that my time here has taught me: open your eyes while you still have the chance, and really see what’s been around you for four years. Once you do that, you can proudly put on your suit, jump on a plane, or buy books for graduate school to begin to fulfill the legacy of excellence that you nurtured at our dear, imperfect Harvard. Monica M. Clark ’06, who was a Crimson executive editor in 2005, is a history and literature concentrator in Currier House...
...youngest cousin—an actress who starred in “A Little Princess”—filed a lawsuit in 2002 alleging that the her father and other family members mismanaged and diverted money from her trust fund. The younger Pritzker’s suit exposed an ongoing battle by 11 other heirs to divide the family’s $15-billion empire into 11 pieces over a 10-year period. The Chicago Tribune reported this past January that the 11 heirs succeeded in dividing the Pritzker fortune, although the details of the deal have...