Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling for clearer, more straightforward critiques, the report says, "A Guide which presents all the courses in the College as equal mixtures of positive and negative is of little value" to students trying to choose between courses...
...spectre is haunting Harvard College, one that threatens to disrupt equal access to the means of production—the spectre of personal computers. Like the typewriter of the last generation, preeminent mode of production. Because of its prohibitive price, however, only the more wealthy can acquire...
Harvard's response to the unequal ownership of computers was initially patterned after the typewriter challenge. The University installed 40 MacIntoshes in the basement of the Science Center and made these available to all—albeit with priority going to those in computer science courses. In this way, equal access to the latest means of production was roughly maintained...
...restricting the computer-deprived to the Science Center's time-sharing terminals, Harvard has replaced equal access to the means of production with avowedly separate but unequal facilities. The word processing available on these terminals, according to User Services Coordinator Eileen Honin, "is not a user-friendly type of thing" and presents some difficulties for students who are not science-oriented. "I can't make heads or tails of it," said humanities concentrator Sarai Brachman '88. With MacWrite, said Honin, "You don't have to know anything about computers...
...historical necessities are clear: non-computer owning Harvardians must recognize themselves as an oppressed class, and (joined by their enlightened allies from the computer-owning class) wage revolutionary struggle for an admittedly reactionary ideal—equal access to the modern means of paper production...