Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban

Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban

CAMBRIDGE – The drumbeat questioning the decision to punish Harvard College students who join single-sex social organizations is growing louder as a growing number of faculty and alumni and even a former university president have opposed the move.

This week, 12 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors fired off a denunciation of Harvard President Drew Faust's May 6 declaration of the new policy. It says that beginning with the class that enters in fall 2018, students who elect to join single-sex clubs, including fraternities, sororities and centuries-old Final Clubs, will be barred from captaining athletic teams, applying for competitive scholarships or leading other on-campus organizations supported by the school.

State Dept. official: ‘No excuse for governments to not enforce effective border controls’
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State Dept. official: ‘No excuse for governments to not enforce effective border controls’

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(CNSNews.com) — The U.S. State Department's Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Justin Siberell, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a written statement today that "[t]here is no excuse for governments to not enforce effective border controls."

"There is no greater priority than keeping America safe from the threat of terrorism," Siberell told the committee at a hearing on "Protecting America from the Threat of ISIS."

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