Word: alling
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The '80s were a time of retrenchment for the University, as many a frustrated student activist has noted. The big changes--the "non-merger merger" with Radcliffe, the creation of the Core Curriculum, the opening of the Kennedy School of Government--had all been made by the time 1980 rolled...
It is perhaps fitting that the biggest event of the decade was the ostentatious party Harvard threw for itself on the occasion of its 350th birthday in 1986. Prince Charles and luminaries of all stripes were on hand for the week-long festivities in September, as were angry protesters, who...
The University's 3400 clerical and technical workers won the right to a union after 17 years of organizing, defeating the Harvard administration's often-intense campaign against them. Harvard severed ties with the nine all-male final clubs when they refused to admit women in 1984. University investments in...
"When [SONG President] Jeremy Kahn told me he was forming this organization, I realized that I was a closet nerd or geek by the way I was leading my life up until this point and all the things I think about," said Widerman. "I find myself being stereotyped in a...
A line from the the movie "Revenge of the Nerds" said that nerds were better lovers, because while all jocks thought about was sports, all nerds talk about is sex. In a lecture Wednesday, Widerman told three nerds and geeks listeners--who recently proclaimed on television's "People Are Talking...