Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop house dining halls sponsored 1950s theme dinners advertised through posters and fliers. The notices included statements intended to evoke nostalgia and invite students to return to a time described as "care-free". After receiving complaints about the event from students, Hernandez-Gravelle released the statement to increase community awareness of racial concerns...
Director of University Dining Hall Services Frank J. Weissbecker expressed surprise that the event, which he said has taken place for seven years, spurred a negative reaction...
...acknowledge that the first incident was clearly offensive, we are likely to question the dean's concern about the latter event. By linking the two, is she not trivializing racism? After all, no offense was intended by referring to the 1950s as a "care-free" era. Must we always mention Jim Crow when we refer to a pre-1970 decade...
...including myself, argued the importance of identifying her as an employee, the women became increasingly angered. Rational argument on both sides quickly disappeared, and we were accused of being sexist, taking a cold and clinincal approach to the event...
...addition, the committee is considering plans to host a panel discussion on divestment and has approached Sen. Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) about taking part in the event...