Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group may also send the final clubs a letter urging them to admit women, Theoharis said. She added that the letter would also say that "if they did decide to let women in, then [SWAT] would donate all its money to building a student center" or to some other Harvard charity...
Possession, after all, is 90 percent of the law. The final clubs own their buildings. They refuse to admit women, and will continue to do so until this campus takes action to stop them. If Cooper and the council are truly interested in equality, they will side with the women who are discriminated against by the clubs. If they refuse to take a stand, or try to represent both sides equally, the council ends up siding with the status quo. And since final club sexism is the status quo, refusal to fight it, in effect, supports...
...have to admit, I exhibit this tendency myself--I think everyone at Harvard does. We're all overacheivers, after all. My being tense means that I need calm people around to show me when I get out of hand. But in an environment defined by anality, I end up being the mellow one, trying to exert a stabilizing influence on the basket cases I feel constantly surrounded...
Ignoring the weird spasm of patriotism I suffer every four years or so, I can admit that Witt danced a beautiful program to beautiful music. In this most watched of Olympic events, however, it is ironic that dancing to beautiful music is what wins...
...holding seminars and weekend retreats for the wealthy, where they could discuss the pressures on their lives candidly and confidentially. Such self-help gatherings are now held nationwide. Says one attendee: "It was the very first time I had been able to sit in a group of people and admit I have money." Cost of a seminar: around $20. For some, it may be the cheapest and soundest bargain they ever struck...