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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students often do not know how to report sexual assault and sexual harassment at the University of New Mexico or where to turn for help in a broken system that violates federal law, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. The department, which launched its investigation
Pro-life
CAMBRIDGE – A discussion at Harvard Law School on Tuesday featured a black, pro-life activist talking about the disproportionate rate of abortions within the black community – what could possibly go wrong? "There is certainly pro-life and pro-choice rhetoric underlying the issue," law student Chase Giacomo, president of Harvard Law
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker cut short his remarks Wednesday night at a networking event for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people after the crowd began to heckle the governor over his refusal to take a stand on the so-called "bathroom bill" that would assure transgender persons' access
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A slim majority of voters support expanding the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts, a new poll shows. The survey from the Western New England University Polling Institute suggests a proposed ballot question to allow up to 12 new charter schools or expansions each year would pass, if it
Harvard University
BOSTON – A Harvard University graduate who is the president of a popular local brewery apologized Thursday for remarks he said "came out all wrong" regarding the Ivy League school's edict that centuries-old exclusively male Final Clubs admit women. It began when Charles M. Storey, Harpoon Brewery
Massachusetts
BOSTON – During an emotional and at times tearful news briefing, two Boston University students on Tuesday explained why they filed suit against the university and their one-time music professor, a world-renowned music French horn player, whom they claim repeatedly sexually harassed them. The students, Erin Shyr and Maria Currie, accuse
Massachusetts
For the first time, a small portable device that lets researchers study DNA in the weightless environment of space will be employed in a student-designed experiment aboard the orbiting International Space Station. The initial experiments were designed by a 16-year-old Bedford, New York, high-school student, Anna-Sophia Boguraev. The lab device
Massachusetts
NEW BEDFORD – School officials in this seaside city are pressing parents to allow their children to take the controversial PARCC exams, claiming that too many opt-outs of the Common Core-aligned tests may harm the district financially and otherwise. The controversy over the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and
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