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Harvard struggles to clarify sexual-conduct policies

CAMBRIDGE – This week's town hall-style meeting at Harvard University, billed as an event aimed at educating undergraduates on the school's new Title IX sexual-conduct policies, managed to leave some students feeling more confused about the changes, according to a Harvard Crimson report. The student newspaper reported

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

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Harvard and Title IX: Survey results in hand, policy debate endures

CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University remains at the forefront of the debate over campus sexual assault, even as a panel of Harvard students and professors meets to consider additional changes to the University's disciplinary procedures under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive

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GOP senator questions new Title IX policies

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after questioning the legality of new Department of Education Title IX regulations and receiving an answer he claims shows that the new standards equate to "executive overreach."

boston

Harvard grad claims school shirked responsibility in sexual assault case

CAMBRIDGE — An explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court alleges that Harvard University ignored a student's plea to have an ex-boyfriend she claims repeatedly sexually assaulted her removed from the dorm where they lived. The plaintiff, who graduated last year, also notes in her complaint that the prestigious

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

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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

Cambridge

Harvard panel highlights Sikh message of healing following massacre

CAMBRIDGE – Hate crimes in America have picked up steam since a massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee shocked the world more than three years ago. But outreach groups are using lessons from the Sikh faith to help prevent further tragedies. "We cannot address trauma by vilifying the '