Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasonable that he should be activist at the outset," says Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59, who has also served as dean of the College. "He had just spent an enormous amount of time inquiring into every nook and cranny of the College." These two initiatives--both of which were protested for impinging upon on student autonomy--were the proposals in the report with the most radical, controversial impact on student life. The alcohol crackdown Lewis pursued during his first semester also drew protests...
...crusade to prod his fellow students toward the progressivism their parents exhibited in the 1960s and 70s, Hennefeld may be fighting an uphill battle against 90s student apathy. But he and the members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM), the activist group he founded at Harvard, think the fight is worth the trouble...
...PSLM leaders, though, say Hennefeld's role should not be underestimated. "Since its inception, Dan has been the soul of PSLM," says Benjamin O. Shuldiner '99. "It is through his effort with PSLM and other student and labor organizations, that this campus is once again infused with a progressive, activist spirit...
...What Harvard does not want to be is another activist human rights organization," Carr said. "The center will research the methods, practices, policies and philosophies of those organizations...
Radcliffe observers offered the college's Board of Trustees several formal proposals. A plan put forward by three alumnae leaders called for an activist Radcliffe Center, the focal point for all women's programming on campus. Another plan, by five female members of the Faculty, would have created an Institute devoted specifically to the study of women and gender. Undergraduates, meanwhile, clamored and still agitate for a "women's center" to offer services they felt neither Harvard nor Radcliffe were currently giving them...