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David G. Blackbourn, the director of the CES, rose to support Pharr’s opening statement...
...more than disappointing—it is disingenuous. President Obama campaigned on a platform of transparency and strengthening civil liberties, and, although he made no commitments to letting the Patriot Act expire, he did, according to his own campaign literature, consistently assert that, “He would support a Patriot Act that would strengthen civil liberties without sacrificing the tools that law enforcement needs to keep us safe.” Instead, Obama’s extended support for the tenets of the Patriot Act that infringe on civil liberties perpetuates Bush-era policies on national security and includes...
Indeed, the reauthorization of the Patriot Act was met with overwhelming support in Congress, but this complicity is neither proof of the efficacy of the Patriot Act nor does it justify this continued infringement on a right to privacy. Similarly, the dearth of successful terrorist attacks since 9/11 is not an adequate indicator that we have been made safer by the Patriot Act—to conjecture as such is to ignore the complex matrix that defines national security...
...We’re particularly concerned about some situations when a student may have real difficulty with their family because of their orientation,” he said, noting that this issue sometimes affects parents’ financial support...
...Rosenberg ’10, Chair of the Harvard Transgender Task Force, said that Harvard could avoid this dilemma by offering information about resources, policies, and support for the LGBT community to all applicants and not only those who may identify as LGBT...