Ginsburg Confirmed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was a student at Harvard Law School from 1956 to 1958 and a visiting professor in the fall of 1971, was confirmed by the Senate to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
One might think the Law School would be baskingin the favorable publicity. Ginsburg, however,used her confirmation hearings as a platform tobash Harvard Law School's treatment of women,saying that the "indignities" imposed on her thenwere what led her to spend much of her careerfighting to break down legal barriers to theadvancement of women in society.
Ginsburg told the Senate Judiciary Committee ofbeing shut out of Lamont Library and denied spacein Law School dormitories.
Current Law School Dean Robert C. Clark saidthe school has changed. "I think she'd be happy ifshe were a student here now," he said.
House of Blues
Harvard's endowment fund will provide venturecapital money for the House of Blues, a HarvardSquare restaurant, to open for business in LosAngeles and New Orleans.
Harvard's investment in the House of Blues, tothe tune of an estimated $25 million, will be usedby Isaac Tigrett, the founder of the House ofBlues who was also a cofounder of the successfulHard Rock Cafe chain.
AIDS Therapy Doubted
There was disappointing news about theso-called "triple therapy," a combination of drugsthat a Harvard medical student announced inFebruary might slow the spread of HIV, the viruswhich causes AIDS.
The Harvard team issued a statement this summersaying that "an unfortunate error, which weregret, ocurred in our laboratory." Otherscientists had difficulty reproducing the resultsreported by the Harvard team. Trials of thetreatment will continue.
Ryan Cleared
A special report commissioned by the U.S. SixthCircuit Court of Appeals cleared UniversityAttorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. of any wrongdoing inthe prosecution of former Cleveland autoworkerJohn Demjanjuk as the notorious Nazi death campguard Ivan the Terrible.
From 1980 to 1983, Ryan headed up theDepartment of Justice's Office of SpecialInvestigations, a unit devoted to Nazi-hunting.However, in finding that Ryan and other Americanprosecutors of Demjanjuk "acted in good faith,"the report said the Harvard attorney and othershad made numerous mistakes, including the mostimportant one: Demjanjuk was most likely not Ivanthe Terrible.
Report Says No Discrimination
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