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...less glamorous duties that came along with joining the board of Lambda, Harvard Law School’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) organization, was the task of cleaning up the office. Lambda was founded as the Committee on Gay Legal Issues 30 years ago. If the state of the office told us anything, it was that three decades of Lambda leadership had never thrown away a single old poster, flier, banner, or note. But these piles were more than just an impediment to us. Sorting through what some might take to be junk, we discovered an archive?...
...university recently changed its nondiscrimination policy to forbid discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Discussions have just begun, however, about how to make our campus truly trans inclusive. Building on the significant efforts of the Trans Task Force and the undergraduate bathrooms campaign, Lambda has begun conversations with the law school administration to make our restrooms safe and accessible for people regardless of their gender identity or expression. We should also urge the law school and Harvard in general to be more attentive to the needs of LGBT people from low-income backgrounds and LGBT people of color. Moreover...
...launch a greenhouse gas reduction initiative—first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national spotlight with his Oscar award-winning documentary on global warming—An Inconvenient Truth—and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase awareness about the impact of climate change. The University...
...short foray into the classroom can really achieve the organization’s oft-stated goal of closing the racial and income achievement gaps in education. And in locations such as New Orleans, which has become a major center of TFA activity following Hurricane Katrina, local conditions make this task even more challenging...
...motion to make Allston more sustainable, some said they were concerned that the plans presented by the city did not address the most pressing transportation problems. “We should be talking about regional traffic and how to keep it from impacting local roads,” said task force chairman Ray Mellone. State Representative Michael J. Moran said the evening’s presentations missed the point. “I’ve never heard huge complaints about public transportation on the roadways,” he said, responding to a suggestion by city officials that Allston...