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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the administration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

While the Harvard women's volleyball team returns six experienced players and boasts an optimistic bunch of freshman recruits, fourth-year Coach Wayne Lem has to be wondering if his squad will be "set" for its opening game September...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Wanted: A New Setter | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...draw a better pool of prospective teachers, he suggests scrapping the current time-consuming four-year certification program in favor of rigorous qualification tests and one semester of pedagogy and practice teaching. In another controversial view, he believes that high school teachers should score an A on a freshman-level college exam in their subject before being allowed to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ivory Tower Triggerman | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...facts that have surfaced about Stevens are eerily similar to those surrounding Theodore Bundy, the serial killer who was executed in Florida in January. Bundy and Stevens were both enrolled as students at the University of Washington; Bundy was a senior while Stevens was a freshman. Bundy was also a former law student in the Northwest who had a fixation on police badges. And both men were avid consumers of pornography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Stalking The Green River Killer | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...young man on the videotape appeared pale and tired, but his identity was unmistakable. He was Wuer Kaixi, 21, the former Beijing Normal University freshman who emerged as the most charismatic leader during the student uprising in China, then disappeared after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He evidently spoke from hiding in Hong Kong, where he is believed to have fled in mid-June through Macao. Thanks to an effective underground of sympathizers, only six of the 21 most-wanted student leaders have been apprehended. Wuer's friends say he may go to the U.S. to organize an alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Arms | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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