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Boston College students protest ‘Eurocentric’ requirement

BOSTON – Boston College's perceived "Eurocentric" course requirement for graduation has some students up in arms. Sophomore Elizabeth Waltman is leading the charge, describing the prestigious college's core courses as falling short of the Jesuit institution's goal of producing students capable of "

Cambridge

MIT hosts lecture tying global warming to Islamophobia

CAMBRIDGE — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a lecture Monday that went where few lectures have gone before: the intersection of Islamophobia and global warming.

Cambridge

Harvard women protest ‘blacklist’ targeting single-sex clubs

CAMBRIDGE – Women in Harvard College sororities and other gender-exclusive organizations are fighting back after administrators at the Ivy League school announced that future students who join off-campus single-sex social groups will be banned from holding campus leadership posts and from pursuing prestigious post-graduate opportunities like Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. The

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Harvard Final Club fights back

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over sexual assault data, are fighting back. In March, a school task force on campus assault released a report that ripped the undergraduate school's six all-male clubs,

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New Kansas law lets campus religious groups restrict members

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' conservative Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday allowing faith-based groups at college campuses to restrict membership to like-minded people, likely putting the state on a collision course with civil liberties groups. The GOP-dominated Legislature approved the legislation earlier this month, even though the U.S. Supreme

Massachusetts

Harvard Law bows to activist calls to drop slaveholder crest

CAMBRIDGE – Royall appears to be falling. Harvard Law School, which last year saw activist students demand that the institution scrub the emblem honoring the family of an early benefactor, Isaac Royall Jr., over his ownership of slaves 300 years ago, caved to pressures this week and voted to support dumping

Massachusetts

Harvard’s frenetic pace leads students to hook up, not date

BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad? Does it hurt women, or empower them? What about men? Is it simply a numbers game, prompted by a rise in the "supply" of women relative

Harvard University

Defying ‘hookup culture,’ some students work to restore romance

BOSTON – This Valentine's Day, some New England college students are working to save an endangered form of romantic relationship on their campuses – casual dating. With many students looking for intimacy through casual sexual encounters, some have been burned by the "hookup culture" that has evolved on