Word: discontentment
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In his speech to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Varmus addressed the discontent on campus surrounding his selection as Commencement speaker. He discussed the widespread sentiment within the senior class that his Nobel-winning discovery of cancer-causing oncogenes did not make...
While Lewis is the most immediate catalyst for student discontent, current national political tides have also sparked concern and response. The activism of the conservative Congress, particularly through the Contract With America, seem to have reinvigorated young leftists.
"[Discontent] had been simmering for a while, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back," says Eric M. Nelson '99, a Crimson editor who was one of HSF's organizers.
The Class of 1996 entered with the lowest number of black students since 1972. The statistics reflected discontent already present on the campus. During that school year, the Black Students' Association distributed a flyer titled, "On the Harvard Plantation," which summarized black students' complaints about the University.
Complaints about crime, unemployment, corruption and the growing disparity between haves and have-nots rounded out the chorus of distress. By day's end Yeltsin appeared tired and beaten. He seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as...