Word: campus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumnus what the biggest team on campus is, and the most common response will be The Team, the football team. Two years ago, Coach Joe "Multiflex" Restic's squad captured the Ivy League Title with a 14-10 win over Yale in The Game on the last weekend of the season...
...students what the biggest team on campus is and the response will be unanimous--the men's ice hockey team, which last April brought Harvard its first NCAA championship since the golf team nabbed the crown in 1905. Minus Hobey Baker winner Lane MacDonald, Olympian Allen Bourbeau, a few other graduates and the hunger for that elusive national title, one can't expect the same from this year's squad...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...
...giddy moment of multi-cultural promise passed all too quickly. Only three weeks later, an elaborate, College-sponsored program specifically for Harvard titled AWARE--Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism--flopped because of student disinterest, non-attendance. Billed as a means to work out mounting racial tensions on campus and targeted largely at the white community, the week of activities was supposed to help resolve "racism among the well-intentioned...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...