Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common perception of the deaf community is that all deaf people sign. But the three deaf undergraduates at Harvard College...
...Higginson must be lonely. One of the all-time best friends of undergraduates is stuck presiding over the central stairway of the Barker Center, watching students dash in and out while faculty members toil in quiet offices. The man who chose central heating over lavish furnishings to create a common space that would make all undergrads feel comfortable has been forced to watch his club be converted into an office building for professors...
...students know the houses do not provide a common space, and the fact that my keycard will not give me access to my friends' houses reminds me of that. So do interhouse restrictions. Moreover, I have seen randomization dilute house character bit by bit. With the gradual dissipation of that character, houses have also been less likely to reach out to non-resident students who used to share the interests of specific communities with a base in the house. The houses cannot compensate for the lack of community feeling at the College; at the most, they offer 13 disparate communities...
...engaged in the business of breaking into smaller and smaller communities, and the administration is encouraging us by refusing to create a common space truly designed for undergraduates, a space where we can be less than dignified. Though Lewis bemoans the lack of space for undergraduate organizations, no one is building us an office building. Many student groups, including the Undergraduate Council, remain stuck in the warren of offices and store-rooms underneath first-year dormitories, lacking the resources to build the kind of space older, endowed undergraduate institutions have. They cannot create for themselves the kind of space...
...feeling depressed at the start of a new semester doesn't necessarily mean you are suffering from the clinical condition. A continuous feeling of depression and prolonged pessimism are the most common signs of depression. Other symptoms include noticeable appetite increase or decrease, sleep disturbances, decreased sexual drive and the tendency to be easily distracted...