Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gentleman once said. 'Eat 'em!'," said the notice accompanying the bag of chocolate kisses in Weld boathouse last Saturday morning. It did not refer to the kisses themselves, though. Instead, the notice was aimed at the fourteen women's crews which went to the line last Sunday in an attempt to depose Radcliffe's heavyweight eight as the premier women's crew in the East...
Another inheritance from the late '60s. Riesman feels, is the "democratization" of the Houses. As an example he cites the Senior Common Room gatherings in Quincy House, with which he is affiliated. "We used to eat on the dais in the dining hall for lunch." he says. "It gave tutors a chance to talk with me. Then it was thought wrong to have senior faculty cut off from students." Now the members of the Senior Common Room are expected to mix with students in the dining hall. As a result of such changes. Riesman says, many professors view the Houses...
When busing is not counter productive it is often superficial in its practical effects. The Human Rights Commission reported late last year that after ten years of busing to achieve integration, James Madison High School in Brooklyn remains internally segregated. Black and white students don't eat, play, talk, study or gather together. Students in Berkeley, California, testified before a Senate committee in 1971 that there was minimal interracial contact after three years of cross-town busing. One high school's student body president reported whites would not attend school dances or eat lunch with blacks. He said that...
There is a biological time bomb in Maine's north woods armed with a fuse set to explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy...
...course of their barrio sojourn, the police made some surprising cross-cultural discoveries. Women's lib, for example, has not yet penetrated the barrio. The father remains the head of the household in all matters; he and the other males are even served their meals first. The women eat later...