Word: bans
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Eight days after the Lowell House Masters reaffirmed their House-wide ban on the game Assassin, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) notified all first year students by e-mail yesterday that they are also forbidden to play...
While Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said the message is just a restatement of a longstanding FDO policy, it has provoked a furor among students who said the ban has never been enforced before...
Organizers of the current Assassin competition between the Harvard Computer Society (HCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) and the annual Harvard Radcliffe Hillel game, now more than four years old, said they had never heard of the FDO's ban until...
...body-proud, open-minded and biology-affirmative female consciousness. Pressured to conform to impossible notions of beauty, girls are falling prey to eating disorders at tragically young ages. There are groups who object to any straightforward reference to female biology, like the school-library censors who periodically ban Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, because it deals with menstruation. In the culture that came up with Baywatch, police officers still sometimes confuse breast feeding with indecent exposure. And, willfully or not, the evolutionary psychologists keep fueling the pop wisdom that the sexes originated on separate...
...infuriating to have read in The Crimson ("Lowell Masters Stress House Ban on Assassin", March 4) that even the limited social offerings of the Houses are now under attack by administrators. For House Masters like Diana L. Eck to threaten expulsion from the House community as a response to playing the game of Assassin--enjoyed by students across the country as harmless, cerebral fun--is preposterous and unjustifiable. Particularly amusing are the objections to the games violent overtones, sentiments I suppose would resonate more soundly were they to come from an administration not currently maintaining relations with two convicted student...