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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work. As for the atmosphere--well, let's just say that for every one part oxygen, you'll find three or four parts sexual energy. Down here, it's a force that's as visible as the haze that pervades the surrounding swamplands. And you thought that dorm rooms without air conditioning would be the only hot and steamy thing you'd encounter this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum Sets First Film in Steamy, Sensual Bayou | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...equal-opportunity policy. The University of Iowa has similar language, and in February, Rutgers adopted more limited protections for "people who have changed or are in the process of changing" their sex. Last year Harvard allowed an incoming female-to-male freshman to live on a male dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed but groundbreaking case last year, a Minnesota male-to-female transsexual won Social Security "widow's benefits" following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trans Across America | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...were sipping sherry in a faculty lounge. But the shift from Lenin to Lennon was wrenching. Indeed, the fights we had over artists and entertainers involved a lot of passionate diatribes conducted as if we were swigging tequila at all-night bull sessions in a sophomore dorm. In order to rationalize the process (somewhat), we divided the world of arts into 20 categories, ranging from writer to singer to poet to painter to actor, and chose the most influential in each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Second 20: This installment of the TIME 100 was harder | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...remains the largest pre-businessorganization on campus. Founded in 1957 as anumbrella organization for disparate studentbusinesses (some of which were run out ofstudents' dorm rooms), HSA has grown into anindependent corporation with a gross revenue ofmore than $4 million annually...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Increasing Trend Toward Careerism Is Controversial | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...having trouble relating to people fromHarvard. We've come from similar backgroundseconomically," Hughes remembers. "That was beforeshe had much structure--she wasn't wrestling thatyear or anything--so one night, she insisted onleaving the dorm...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Her Way to Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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