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Campuses erupt as students pursue racial grievances

PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt a fatal roundhouse blow to the school's longtime connection to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. and the prestigious university's 13th

Massachusetts

At Harvard, Defense chief predicts generational battle against terror

CAMBRIDGE – Grappling with violent extremism will be a key challenge facing Americans for generations to come, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said at the Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday, hours after telling a congressional committee that more special forces were being deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State. The

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Tape defaces black professors’ Harvard Law portraits

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University police on Thursday began investigating whether strips of black tape placed over portraits of black Harvard Law School professors adorning a wall outside a lecture hall was merely vandalism or something more sinister. Images of the taped-over portraits surfaced on social media Thursday morning, a day after

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Harvard activists push to purge Law School crest

CAMBRIDGE – Activists at Harvard Law School are asking the esteemed school to ditch the wheat. Student protesters claim the sheaves in the Harvard Law insignia "stain the school's contribution to humanity." The reason?

Cambridge

Harvard adds alternative gender pronouns

CAMBRIDGE — Starting this school year, students at Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences will be allowed to select their gender and choose their own pronouns. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which more than half of Harvard undergraduates are enrolled, will allow students to select from genders,

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Harvard student loses Facebook gig for app that shows flaws

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application that exploited privacy flaws on its mobile messenger. Aran Khanna's app showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.

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U.S. Department of Justice sides with disabled against MIT, Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE – Higher education could soon get a schooling on disability rights from a Massachusetts federal court, which is set to determine whether to allow a lawsuit demanding closed captioning on all Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology online and educational content to proceed. Last week, attorneys with the U.