Monday, August 21, 2017

Motion filed concerning club membership

Along with the co-signers listed below, I have submitted the following motion for the October 3 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Harvard College shall not discipline, penalize, or otherwise sanction students for joining, or affiliating with, any lawful organization, political party, or social, political, or other affinity group.

Explanatory note. This motion is intended to give students who join or form legal clubs or similar organizations the same protections that existing policies afford to all other students.  It also secures their right of free association.  If the policy is adopted, students could not, simply because of membership in a legal club, social or political organization, be sanctioned by the Administrative Board or by the Honor Council, or deprived of any academic or extracurricular opportunity or honor for which they would otherwise be eligible.

Boaz Barak
Shaye J. D. Cohen
Kathleen Coleman
Grzegorz Ekiert
James Engell
Benjamin M. Friedman
Daniel Gilbert
Barbara J. Grosz
David Haig
Harry Lewis
Richard Losick
Jason P. Mitchell
Michael Mitzenmacher
Eric M. Nelson
Steven Pinker
Hanspeter Pfister
Wilfried Schmid
Margo Seltzer
Richard Thomas
Helen Vendler
James Waldo

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