Word: campus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until Schkolnick's complaint was filed in December of 1987, campus activism about the clubs' discrimination was dormant. With that complaint came a new wave of controversy--and a new undergraduate group formed to rally support for Schkolnick and her cause...
...Campus debate has subsided, and the Fly Club continues to refuse admission to women in its annual, highly secretive "punching" rituals...
COCA has broken out of the cycle of dining-hall tabling and rallies that most campus activist groups find themselves locked into. Such traditional tactics are not wholly useless. There is no substitute for one-on-one discussion of pertinent issues, and rallies can serve to spark student enthusiasm...
THIS is not to say that laying a collective guilt trip on the Harvard community should be the goal of campus activism. Being shocked into self-awareness is not the same thing as being made to feel guilty. Good "shock-activism" will create, among students, a new emotional connection with what was previously merely a newspaper headline. Such an emotional awareness should lead to thought and discussion about the issue at hand, in this case the role of the U.S. government in El Salvador...
...cannot display any quantitative evidence that COCA's actions have had any effect on the thoughts and discussions of Harvard students in recent weeks. Still, it is likely that there has, indeed, been an effect. The actions have provoked some discussion in the campus press. And surely not every one of the 900 students who received draft notices shrugged it off as junk mail...