no connection to Harvard, it shouldn't be an invasion to release the name
of someone who has some connection," Gerstein says of his argument back then.
When he began talking with administrators, many agreed with his view--including then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III.
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"Once they were called on it, they knew it was hard to justify it. There
was a sort of institutional reluctance to release information like this,"
Gerstein remembers.
Gerstein's law was passed by the Massachusetts State Legislature--and Harvard, as an ostensibly private organization, wasn't exempted. Neither were the logs at any other private college or university.
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