Harvard Doing Nothing To Cure ‘Toxic Space’ for Homosexual and Transgender Graduate Students, Activists Say

Harvard University offers no paid staff to assist and advise graduate students who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgender and also doesn't sponsor events for them, activists say.

The crisis became apparent to a doctoral student last May when she sat at a table for a student fair as a volunteer to describe offerings available to homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students and realized that every other table was manned by a staff member or student who was being paid.

Why You Don’t See Flagmen in Massachusetts
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Why You Don’t See Flagmen in Massachusetts

Matthew McDonald

Massachusetts drivers rarely see civilian flagmen to direct traffic at road construction projects because state law ensures that they're not much cheaper than hiring cops, a new Pioneer Institute report says.

A civilian flagman costs $43.44 an hour, far above the national average of $28.89, according to the Pioneer policy brief released Monday. That's not much less than state and local police officers get, and town and city officials aware that police officers use details to supplement their incomes usually hire police for road projects rather than flagmen.

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