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Feds’ Boston Latin probe finds one civil rights violation

Feds’ Boston Latin probe finds one civil rights violation

State House News Service

The Boston Public Schools will adopt a comprehensive strategy to address and prevent racial harassment of its students that will include annual trainings, an annual school-wide survey of the racial climate, and the establishment of a diversity/non-discrimination officer, federal authorities announced on Monday, citing the conclusion of a months-long independent investigation of alleged civil rights violations at Boston Latin School.

According to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the investigation involved interviews with more than 200 people – Boston Latin administrators, faculty, parents, students and alumni – and the review of thousands of pages of documents. Authorities concluded there was one Civil Rights Act violation involving Boston Latin's "mishandling of its review of allegations that a male student addressed a female black student during class using profanity and a racial slur and threatened to lynch her with an electrical cord," according to Ortiz' office.

Yale conference seeks to foster culture of life
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Yale conference seeks to foster culture of life

Kelly Thomas

NEW HAVEN – For most college students, the end of September means the end of course-shopping and the threat of looming deadlines and midterms. But for a small group of students at Yale University, the library is the last thing on their minds. Instead, they are preparing to host nearly two-hundred students at a conference this week on the global pro-life movement.

Now in its third year, Vita et Veritas, run by Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) has grown from a regional conference to one with national reach, attracting attendees from as far as the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and Baylor University in Waco Texas. With its name drawing inspiration from the mottos of both Yale and Harvard, the conference's mission, in the words of its current co-director, Evy Behling (Yale'17) is to "evoke a sense of the intellectual perspectives" that undergird the pro-life cause, while catering to a collegiate audience.

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