Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group usually holds its meetings in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. At their most recent meeting, a circle of a dozen students seated on chairs and sofas ringed a coffee table. On its surface were liter bottles of soft drinks, bags of chips and cookies, and unsteady columns of piled plastic cups threatening to tumble over on top of the large University Dining Services fruit and cheese plate which had pushed them to the edge of the round tabletop. Podolsky and Ben Rahn, the other leader of the group, welcomed everyone and then went through...
Since Harvard borders high-crime areas likeCambridge Common and the Square, the temptationsfor off-campus policing are great for HUPDofficers...
...aside the video and returned to work on my thesis or procrastinate in less interesting ways. But last week, in a moment of utter boredom (they become more frequent toward the end of Senior Spring), I walked over to my bookshelf, grabbed the video and went downstairs to the common room. In part, however, I wasn't just bored. I wanted to watch this video while still here at college, where there are people around to discuss issues like abortion and where it seems especially useful to think about and debate these big questions...
...Harvard, in a community of young people grappling with ideas, issues and different viewpoints, I felt nervous and guilty while the video was on--as if I had something to be ashamed of watching this controversial film. Every time I heard someone come into the lobby outside the common room I gripped the remote control, ready to switch the TV back over to VH1. Now, perhaps, I know how conservatives on this campus must sometimes feel...
...abortion clinics are run by organized crime. Still, Nathanson does make a smart move in urging not that all abortions be made illegal, but that women about to undergo the procedure view a film like "Silent Scream" that shows the process in detail. By the time I left the common room, I was ready to consider re-opening the book on my views on abortion...