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Harvard slaps down Final Clubs with leadership ban

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University imposed harsh penalties on off-campus social groups Friday, targeting all-male Final Clubs – some that are centuries old – in the latest attempt by administrators to deal with a purported epidemic of sexual abuse at the Ivy League institution. Future members of exclusive single-sex social clubs, including fraternities and

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Harvard Law activists push new demands to redress ‘racism’

CAMBRIDGE – Days after Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow agreed to explore demands from student activists to remove imagery from the school seal that they say is racially offensive, the same group issued fresh demands, including more financial aid for minorities, a new office of diversity and inclusion, and revamping