Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raiders, who finished the regular season at 19-9-1 overall and 15-6-1 ECAC, are favored to win, but they are in no way assured of victory. Vermont (18-12 overall, 13-9 ECAC) was the only team to defeat Colgate at home this season, winning 6-5 in overtime last Saturday. The Catamounts finished the season ranked second offensively in the ECACs and third defensively...
Last Friday, in a demonstration partially inspired by an alleged assault upon a gay Mather resident, Defeat Homophobia, a campus gay, lesbian and bisexual rights organization, staged a "kiss-in" in the Mather dining hall to "protest violence with love...
Presumably, the purpose of the kiss-in was to elicit a response that would demonstrate the depth or shallowness of support for gay rights at Harvard. The Defeat Homophobia effort has been widely successful in challenging the assumptions of those who considered themselves to be tolerant of homosexuality, but were unwilling to pay the cause anything more than lip service...
King was right. The kiss-in has already changed the nature of the debate over lesbian and gay rights. By debunking the myth of tolerance, Defeat Homophobia has created a new dialogue which attempts to define more accurately what tolerance means...
...Crimson fell to Yale, 79-74, Saturday night at Briggs Cage. The defeat virtually destroyed Harvard's chance to repeat as Ivy League champions. It was the Crimson's second straight Ivy loss, dropping Harvard to 14-9 overall...