From the Harvard Crimson: A Harvard administrator told two professors on Tuesday that a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their office windows would be taken down by this Saturday, describing it as a violation of University-wide rules on using campus space. Bence P. Ölveczky and Mansi Srivastava, professors of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, posted large block letters in their windows spelling out “Black Lives Matter” in 2020 as protests broke out nationwide over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Since then, the letters have faced out from the Northwest Science Building, where their labs are located. But on Tuesday, Dean of Science Jeffrey W. Lichtman handed Ölveczky a letter addressed to him and Srivastava, saying that the message would be removed... The letter — which was signed by Anthony Mantia, the building manager for the Northwest Building — claimed the message violated Harvard’s campus use rules, which were introduced in August 2024 following intense pro-Palestine campus protests in the spring...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/21/blm-sign/.
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