Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While exams do provide the opportunity (some might say coercion) to make us review our course material, how much do we actually retain once we've handed in our blue books? True, not all courses rely solely on midterms and finals. My point is that Harvard should make more use of our tutorial system, which focuses on close reading of texts, discussion and continuous evaluation...
...just what kind of a choice is that? When women are desperate for money to help raise their children, the carrot of increased benefits for using Norplant becomes a stick, and choice becomes coercion, even extortion...
That doesn't mean students should feel license to linger forever. But turnover at the Greenhouse should be a question of courtesy, not coercion...
...letter published October 26, Lydia Alix Fillingham criticized the Civil Liberty Union of Harvard's definition of rape as sex that occurs "despite the expressed dissent and/or in the presence of threats, intimidation, coercion or lack of an ability to dissent...
Practical justification for CLUH's definition emerges from an analysis of the four basic conditions under which sex can occur (we are assuming cases where no intimidation, coercion, etc. occurs, as such situations constitute rape under both our definition and that of the Task Force): 1. Neither party asks for or expresses consent, and neither dissents. 2. At least one party asks for consent and does not receive an answer. 3. Both parties ask for and receive consent. 4. At least one party dissents...