Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each of the Radcliffe teams is focused on a common goal. Yet, we as members are distinct individuals. Our team represents a diverse group of women who in other circumstances might never have met. For example, Radcliffe Rugby draws as many members from Girl Spot as it does from the Christian Fellowship. While I do not necessarily see eye to eye with all of my teammates, I benefit greatly from the time spent getting to know each other. Through our differences, we often discover much about ourselves...
...come together for common goals. This Saturday marks the beginning of the Radcliffe Union of Students Take Back the Night week (beginning with the Take Back the River Run, coincidentally enough). During the week, more than 21 different groups will coordinate workshops, seminars and lectures pertaining to women's safety issues. Let us continue this kind of co-sponsorship and coalition building. We have much to learn from each other...
...generic Harvard experience may be in danger. Of course, if the generic Harvard experience is preppy, snooty and New Englandy, few will miss it. But we should all graduate with some sense of having gone to the same institution, having shared some of the same memories, having more in common than having gone to the Harvard-Yale game and the Primal Scream...
Steele described this phenomena as a "stereotype threat" that causes students to overcompensate in an attempt to disprove common misconceptions of race and gender...
Parents and administrators argue, however, that although the schools have grown more similar over the years, the common perception is that fundamental differences in school culture still exist...