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Massachusetts Senate To Vote Thursday on Conversion Therapy Ban

Matthew McDonald

The Massachusetts Senate plans to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors.

Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) said the bill was voted out of committee Monday, March 25 and will go to the Senate floor Thursday, March 28, according to video of a press conference published by State House News Service.

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Harvard Undergraduate House Purges Portrait of Namesake

Matthew McDonald

An undergraduate dormitory at Harvard College will not display a portrait of the man it's mostly named for when it re-opens in the fall of 2019.

The portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) and his wife Anna has hung for years in the dining hall of Lowell House, one of 12 undergraduate houses at Harvard College where sophomores, juniors, and seniors live.

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