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...Hutch is absent from one of the weekend's most stimulating events -- the Fishbowl, a parlor game in which a group of 28 men and 24 women assemble to ask one another sexually oriented questions. During the session, a fortyish woman wins applause with the sort of inspired reasoning one would expect here: "It's not the size of the wand," she announces in response to no question, "it's the magic...
...chapter on Friedan, why not a mention of Simone De Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex, published in 1953, gave U.S. feminists a modern ideology? Klaus Fuchs, the British atomic spy, makes a number of appearances, but Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953, are strangely absent...
...think it went well--we succeeded at getting the 30,000 people attending the Harvard Commencement to think about this for a day," said Sears. "I think we succeeded in introducing a message that was [absent] for a long time about lifting...
Schools are attempting to fill in where parents have failed. But it has been hard for educators over these past few years to know what to teach when society itself cannot agree on a direction. Absent any agreement over what is "proper" sexual conduct, teachers can be left reciting, word for word, the approved text on homosexuality or abortion or masturbation. The typical sex-ed curriculum is remarkably minimalist. Most secondary schools offer somewhere between 6 and 20 hours of sex education a year. The standard curriculum now consists of one or two days in fifth grade dealing with puberty...
Rene Reyes '95, one of the members who opposed the decision to take a phone vote, said there was enough confusion among the attending members. "[The absent members] have no idea what has gone on in debate...It would be very irresponsible...It would be a mistake," Reyes said...