Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life sentences - an equally disgusting crime was committed in Arkansas, where two men raped and killed a 13-year-old boy. That incident received relatively little coverage, while Shepard leaves a story that will probably endure for years to come as a symbol of intolerance and lowest-common-denominator conformity...
...with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. (There is, of course, a double standard there.) Matthew Shepard died not because of an all-too-common sex crime, but because of prejudice...
...disappointed by the poor connection between faculty and House life," he said. In Cabot, the Senior Common Room table and an informal faculty dinner program are a small step toward addressing this, he said...
Levy proposed four factors needed to build spirit: an easily accessible common space, House special events that could address a wide variety of interests, a recognition and accommodation of ethnic and special-interest groups and dynamic leaders...
...extensive point of discussion was the apparent conflict between the administration's desire to create diverse, heterogeneous Houses, and the students' desires to create large blocking groups of friends with common backgrounds...