{"id":388,"date":"2007-04-29T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/04\/29\/theyre-alive-harvard-law-students-pr"},"modified":"2007-05-01T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T18:03:25","slug":"theyre-alive-harvard-law-students-protest-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/04\/29\/theyre-alive-harvard-law-students-protest-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Alive! Harvard Law Students Protest Gonzales!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Becker confronting Harvard Law School Alums including torture czar Alberto Gonzalez\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2007\/04\/becker_med.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThomas Becker in class 1A Gitmo drag seems to have the right idea. He confronts Harvard Law School Alums because<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Torture Alum Alberto Gonzalez at the HLS Reunion Apr 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2007\/04\/alberto.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Torture Alum Alberto Gonzales was there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Ok. I&#8217;m being just a bit melodramatic. I discovered that Harvard Law School is not totally a branch office of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/students\/orgs\/fedsoc\/\">Federalist Society<\/a>, when the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/03\/20\/the-take\/\">Legal Left took me to dinner<\/a><sup>1<\/sup>, again when<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/students\/orgs\/unbound\/index.html\"> Unbound<\/a> had their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/students\/orgs\/unbound\/symposium.html\">Resistance and the Law<\/a> conference, and again on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/03\/21\/hard-questions\/\">4th anniversary of the invasion<\/a>. But I am still getting over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milgram_experiment\">Milgram<\/a> reception given to Chertoff.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Actually, I picked a bad week to be home taking care of domestic matters. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/\">The Harvard Coalition to End Torture<\/a> [great pictures! including the two above] demonstrated for a full week and I missed it. I don&#8217;t watch mainstream media much, but Yahoo doesn&#8217;t show anything until Torture Alum showed up. The guy in orange has the right idea. What&#8217;s wrong with all those other people? Maybe Dean Elena [endearingly Brooklyn<sup>2<\/sup>] is right, a single required course in the third year isn&#8217;t quite enough to set folks&#8217; moral compass straight.<\/p>\n<h3>Missed it by that much!<\/h3>\n<p>The reunion was on Saturday in Austin Hall [next to the Littauer building]. i went a little bit, but had to go guard the library. Sounds like the demonstration occurred during my shift.<br \/>\nI watched Dean Elena on the overflow. Aside from straightening out folks&#8217; moral compass, she&#8217;s gonna build a lot of really, really, big stuff. What is it with law types and big furniture? Judges and their big desks? Some kind of compensation thing goin&#8217; on? The wavefunction of the universe will fit in the pencil drawer of a regular desk.<sup>3<\/sup><br \/>\nBut I gotta go with Professor Janet, them big Hauser windows are glorious.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Professor Janet Halley at the Resistance Conference March 2007 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2007\/04\/janet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p>Professor Janet Halley at <strong>Resistance and the Law<\/strong>, March 2007<br \/>\nHandsome is as handsome does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>It was heartening that they took care to feed the help who were on duty. I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t quite get the recycling regime. I can tell you from years in the library &#8211; there&#8217;s no sign everyone will understand; you need a guy by the sign to explain it. And it helps if you&#8217;ve thought about it in advance.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>On beginning grad school, I lived just west of Park Slope on the &#8216;transition&#8217; block. A coupla three days there, we heard a popping noise outside. Some guy had a gun. At least that&#8217;s what Gil said. I was hugging the floor boards. My first experience of buying dirt in a plastic bag was there.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Of course, all the &#8220;human degrees of freedom&#8221; are &#8220;integrated out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Becker in class 1A Gitmo drag seems to have the right idea. He confronts Harvard Law School Alums because Torture Alum Alberto Gonzales was there. Ok. I&#8217;m being just a bit melodramatic. 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