Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They live within Harvard's television-saturated culture, but they do not sing along with their roommate's CD of "Hit TV Theme Songs of the 80s." They ask "Scoobie Who?" They cannot imitate Michael Jackson's dance from "Thriller." No, they aren't aliens. They don't even come from "Third Rock" or the X-Files. They are ordinary students, with one key difference: they are the television deprived...
...sees the need for. Bradley-Moore muses, "The big question is going to be if I have one when I get married and have kids. I think maybe I'll just get one for myself and put a lock on it and let them watch `Sesame Street' if they ask. It would be cool if I could invent some-thing that would control certain channels coming on at certain times of day, so I could control what my kids were watching...
...Ask any science concentrator if they learn more in lecture or lab; ask anyone who has ever volunteered at a homeless shelter if their experiences with inner-city economic realities were covered in Ec10. It is only by active engagement with the world that one becomes "educated" in any real sense of the word...
...asking Harvard students to ignore their theses in favor of protests or to skip lectures to help out those less fortunate than themselves. Instead we are asking that students keep an eye on the big picture our educational institution is embedded in, ask what this education is for and about after all, and participate in the broader community in any way possible. Or, at the very least, that they stop trying to polish the walls of the ivory tower and pretend we can be both uber-privileged and righteous...
...does not permit recruiters from any organization to make use of its OCS without signing a non-discrimination agreement. The U.S. military should be no exception. Regardless of one's opinion concerning the functional necessity of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, it does represent a form of discrimination against homosexuals. HLS has the right to keep any organization that maintains such a doctrine from making use of its facilities...