Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...staff voted for the union. Yet, the administration jumped in to challenge the verdict. Even though the closeness of the vote may have justified this interference, Harvard's action casts further doubt on its attitude toward workers and their ability to decide their own fate. Such challenges are a common tactic for employers to delay a union's certification and contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues among staff and devaluing worker choice. So much for Bok's former support of unions' and workers...
...sometimes lecture together, share a philosophy that owes more to common sense and The Joy of Sex than to Marx. Liu, for example, does not condone premarital sex, but he considers it a fact of life for up to 30% of Chinese youth. The trend, he often explains to parents, is a consequence of China's "one couple, one child" policy of population control. The late marriages and subsequent late births encouraged by the policy, he believes, "do not conform to the physiological development of human beings." People reach their sexual prime toward the end of their teens...
...single people. Many unmarried women are thus driven to seek dangerous back-alley abortions rather than risk the scandal that would arise from exposure of their illicit affairs if they chose legal channels. "If we teach them how to prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand hypocritical, pointing out that government hospitals in the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, have become profitable abortion mills by guaranteeing confidentiality to affluent women who cross the border into China for the operations...