Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be quite a circus," Rodriguez says. "They won't have languages in common at all, and my little brother will be stuck translating...
...they will all have Mayra Rodriguez in common. Rodriguez, who has made a life of understanding and bringing people together, breaking seemingly impenetrable barriers, will step in and calm matters down...
...struggle against frustration. As a freshman he had access to two suites in the entire Yard, both located in one entryway in one dormitory. As an upperclassman in Leverett House, one of the three houses at the College even partially wheelchair accessible, he had no access to the library, common rooms or most students' rooms. And, when the University said living on the 10th floor would be a fire hazard for him, Wallace enlisted the aid of a Boston lawyer to convince Harvard to let him live on an upper floor of the house high-rise...
...what Perez says he seeks above all is dialogue--among students and faculty and administrators, among students of different backgrounds and between Harvard and the outside community. Only this dialogue can make Harvard a truly enlightened community where people work for "the common life...
ALTHOUGH these organizations focus on diverse issues, their complaints have a common orientation--fairness--and a common target--elitism--but they lack a unified spokesman. The Undergraduate Council, which funds these groups, would seem to make a helpful, unifying spokesman. The nominal undergraduate representative would seem to be the natural leader for efforts for student justice. But students found that the council would not champion their cause. Instead of battling sexism in the final clubs, the council balked and seemed more interested in equitably representing the students who buy into elitism here than backing institutions open...