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FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo, political scientist Charles Murray speaks at The Madison Club in Madison, Wis. Harvard University is hosting a talk by Murray, an author who co-wrote a book discussing racial differences in intelligence and touched off a boisterous protest earlier this year in Vermont. Murray has said his views are misunderstood. He says he hopes his appearance on campus Wednesday, Sept. 6, is peaceable. (Michael P. King /Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Author who sees race-intelligence link speaks at Harvard

By VAISHNAVEE SHARMA - Associated Press

Proposed ban on Harvard social groups draws faculty pushback

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In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) **FILE**

Ivy League schools brace for scrutiny of race in admissions

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this March 7, 2017, file photo, rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) **FILE**

Harvard proposal would ban fraternities and sororities

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 26, 2016 file photo filmmaker Steven Spielberg, left, speaks with Harvard President Drew Faust, right, while sitting for a photograph before Harvard University commencement exercises, in Cambridge, Mass. President Faust, who was the first woman to lead Harvard University, announced Wednesday, June 14, 2017, that she will leave her post after the upcoming academic year saying in a letter &quot;it will be the right time for the transition to Harvard's next chapter, led by a new president.&quot; (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Harvard’s 1st female president stepping down after 11 years

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Top Obama White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers (Getty Images/File)

Liberal Trump hysteria, Salem witch trials

By Bruce Fein

Rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Newspaper: Harvard pulls student offers over online comments

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: Rule of law ‘a blessing’

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press

Facebook CEO and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University commencement exercises, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass., (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In His Words: Mark Zuckerberg addresses Harvard Class of ‘17

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Former Vice President Joe Biden waves as he steps on the stage at the start of 2017 Harvard College Class Day exercises, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Biden is scheduled to deliver the 2017 Class Day address. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Biden tells grads to take up ‘dirty business of politics’

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Homeless to Harvard

By CHERYL OWENS - Associated Press

Obasi Shaw poses outside the gates of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 18, 2017. Shaw, an English major who graduates from Harvard next week, is the university's first student to submit his final thesis in the form of a rap album. The record, called “Liminal Minds,” has earned the equivalent of an A- grade, good enough to ensure that Shaw will graduate with honors at the university’s commencement next week. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard student submits rap album as his senior thesis

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2017 photo, Maurice Cooley, right, Associate Vice President of Intercultural Affairs at Marshall University, presents Demetrius Miller with his Kente cloth during Marshall's spring Donning of the Kente ceremony in Huntington, W. Va. Harvard will join a growing number of universities when it holds its first &quot;Black Commencement&quot; on May 23 to recognize the accomplishments of black students and faculty. Organizers said it isn't meant to replace the traditional graduation but to add something that was missing. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)

Black Harvard students holding a graduation of their own

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Graduates of Harvard Law School wave gavel during commencement ceremonies on May 29, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Harvard to host first all-black graduation: ‘This is not about segregation,’ student says

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

High school track coach facing child porn charges

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Gender-neutral bathrooms may become more common with the flurry of legislative activity over which public facilities transgender people will be allowed to legally use. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Harvard tells students gender identity can change ‘day to day’: Report

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

New Hampshire teen from Africa lands scholarship to Harvard

By ELLA NILSEN - Associated Press

Behind these Ivy League walls, researchers spend nearly $900,000 in federal taxpayer money to pit mice against each other. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Harvard University to purge ‘Puritans’ from alma mater lyrics in name of inclusiveness

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter responds to a question during a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard said Tuesday, March 28, 2017, that Carter is returning as a professor of technology and global affairs, and as director of Harvard's Belfer Center think tank. He previously taught at the Ivy League School from 1996 to 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Former Pentagon chief Ash Carter returns to teach at Harvard

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Marianne Quinn the mother of Aaron Quinn, one of Matthew Muller's victims, speaks to the media after a verdict was reached in Muller's trail Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after emotional testimony from his victims in a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California initially dismissed it as a hoax. (Matthew Adkins/The Times-Herald via AP)

Harvard-educated lawyer gets 40 years for bizarre kidnapping

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press