Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Called Mutual Sharing, Mutual Caring, a sex-education manual for New Hampshire teenagers has too much mutuality for the state's conservative establishment. The booklet discusses topics ranging from reproductive functions to rape, pregnancy and homosexuality. "Gay and lesbian adolescents are perfectly normal and their sexual attraction to members of the same sex is healthy," says the manual...
...Questions I couldn't figure out, Part Two: This one is perhaps the strangest question in the entire 18-page booklet: "Please assess the contribution of each of the following to the development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...
Composition Women: 82 percent Men: 18 percent Pro-union: 61 percent Anti-union: 19 percent Undecided: 20 percent Have looked at the University's briefing booklet: 35 percent Said Harvard should not be allowed to stage an anti-union campaign: 38 percent Mentioned Yale University's support staff union: 100 percent...
...meetings with supervisors and in the booklet, the University advocated that bosses criticize the union and told them a number of ways to do so. These tactics put supervisors between a rock and a hard place, forcing them into unsure legal situations and unfair ethical relations with their employees. Moreover, many supervisors support the union effort or just don't want to be involved on either side. Supervisors--themselves employees who must answer to other supervisors--should not be forced to tow the administration line, or fear that their jobs are endangered because of their opinions...
...Hampshire, leading up to primary night, the AARP mailed out 250,000 pieces of literature detailing the candidates' positions on Social Security, long-term health care and other incendiary issues. One booklet was called You Can Select the President -- a brash enough claim, until you consider that in 1984 a total of 101,000 Democrats voted in the primary and that the AARP has 145,000 members in New Hampshire alone. A $250,000 television ad campaign aims to get out the gray vote. "The old folks," says Political Consultant Thomas Kiley, "are showing more political muscle in this election...