Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another problem that might surface, Lewis says, is of more immediate concern to students: class size. While new courses are always being developed and new faculty recruited to the Core, getting professors to teach is often difficult...
...concern that development is making inroads into neighborhoods has been growing for several years. A 1984 study commissioned jointly by the University and the city's Community Development Department identified several sites in the Harvard Square area that were ripe for redevelopment...
...persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...
...personal and delicate nature of the issue has made it difficult to bring cases of homophobic harassment to the public eye and to use them to mobilize campus awareness and concern, since victims are generally afraid to come forward with their complaints. Unfortunately, anti-homosexual bigotry is not alien to university life, and it is easy to understand the frustration which groups like Defeat Homophobia feel in trying to deal with the problem. One can therefore understand how quickly Defeat Homophobia was able to organize a Kiss-in at Mather to denounce homophobia after Sunday's confrontation...
...Crimson articles and the House meeting on Saturday focused on homophobia--not because it was the intrinsically more important issue, but because concern for the privacy of this Mather senior led me and many others in the House to avoid direct reference to the case in public forums. This silence should not be construed in any way as acquiescence to the peculiar deception which has been perpetrated on the Harvard community. And I can no longer maintain that silence...