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Individual students can make a difference. The clubs can no longer be accepted as benign vestiges of Harvard's aristocratic past. Students should express dismay when they find out that a friend is considering joining a club. Women should stop accepting the status quo and should refuse to enter clubs which by their very existence encourage demeaning and sexist attitudes. Present members should resign from the clubs because of the clubs' immoral foundations...
...letter to the Crimson (Oct. 29, "Law School Stifling Activism") was a deeply personal one. I was upset over what I believed were gross injustices to people I knew and respected highly, and I wanted some means of expressing my anger and dismay...
...main reactions of students at Harvard to a ban on underage drinking has been dismay. "House cohesion is going to fall apart. Let's face it--without alcohol fewer people are going to come to our parties," said one house committee chairman. However, while we believe raising the drinking age to 21 was ill-considered, and agree that the situation is unfortunate, Harvard apparently must at least try to enforce the law. Students need to take a constructive approach and avoid mere apathy in the face of this problem...
...Harvard Medical School professor's work is largely a survey course in, yes, sexually transmitted diseases. Zinner starts with the premise that the 60s were the years of sexual revolution and that the 80s "reflect postrevolutionary confusion, dismay, and uncertainty," a sort of sexual reconstruction...
...countless consumers have found to their dismay, the towering interest that banks charge for credit-card purchases can defy both gravity and the laws of economics. While the prime rate for corporate customers has plunged from 20 1/ 2% to 9 1/2% since 1981 and the average new mortgage rate has dropped from 17.7% to 11.6% during that time, credit-card interest in most areas has remained at a sky-high level of more than 18% annually. That is a rate once associated with local loan sharks rather than with your friendly neighborhood banker...