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...Life Suzy M. Nelson said, according to minutes of the meeting transcribed by the UC’s Benjamin W. Milder ’08. The soon-to-be-formed task force will include House officials, College administrators, and students, according to Kouskalis. —Staff writer Pedro V. Moura can be reached at pmoura@fas.harvard.edu...
...students to change their name on their student IDs, even without a legal name change. Change at other schools wasn’t achieved immediately or without resistance. “There’s a lot of adversity here—people struggle,” says Dorothea V. Brauer, director of LGBTQA Services at UVM. “Vermont is not eager to be up front and socially experimental, but [we are] also known for a kind of tolerance of individual difference.”Though Harvard is known for its tolerance, too, it is also notorious...
...V for Vendetta” is the latest chapter in Hollywood’s newfound effort to be taken seriously. The past year has seen several films that try to speak not to the audience’s base instincts but rather to their intellects. However, Hollywood, for all its professed liberalism, does not change easily, and the quintessential icon of brainless entertainment has found the transformation into a sober critic a rather difficult one. The failure of “V for Vendetta” as political commentary, however, does not come from artlessness—there are moments...
...announcement comes a week after HMS sent out admissions decisions to its incoming Class of 2010, and almost three years after the Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s point-based undergraduate admissions policy in the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger...
Poussaint cited the language of the Gratz v. Bollinger decision, which called for “holistic” affirmative action policies, saying that administrators “thought it would look more holistic if minority groups were spread over all the subcommittees...