Harvard students and faculty are rallying together in order to seek degrees for 7 students who were expelled in 1920 for being gay. This all coincides with Lady Gaga's launch of her "Born This Way" foundation at the university on Wednesday. The group's Twitter page reveals that Gaga and her mother Cynthia are "building a brave new world where humanity is embraced, individuals are empowered, and intolerance is eliminated.''
However, Harvard says it doesn't award posthumous degrees, except in rare cases in which students complete all requirements for a degree, but die before the commencement ceremony. Nearly a decade ago the university issued an apology after students uncovered the well-kept secret.
"In 2002, the University expressed its deep regret for the way the situation was handled as well as for the anguish experienced by the students and their families almost a century ago."
Despite the apology students and faculty are planning to rally so Harvard will formally abolish the secret court, a tribunal of administrators that investigated charges of homosexual activity among students at the Ivy League school in 1920.
Source: news.yahoo.com
