Word: geeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When [SONG President] Jeremy Kahn told me he was forming this organization, I realized that I was a closet nerd or geek by the way I was leading my life up until this point and all the things I think about," said Widerman. "I find myself being stereotyped in a way that I have fought against all my life...Clearly people have some conception of what nerds or geeks are supposed to look like. I don't look like that, but somewhere in my own mind I think of myself...
Though he may not look like a geek, Widerman definitely does not come across as a stud. The former Crimson wrestler is 5-ft., 2-in. tall, 118-lbs. and balding. Aside from being Harvard's assistant wrestling coach, Widerman is a strict vegetarian who teaches yoga and dance classes at Harvard...
Kahn decided that honesty was the best policy when he named the new club. "We could have called ourselves the Academic Intellectual Society but then everyone would have said, 'Oh, you mean the nerd-and-geek club...
Leonid Fridman, Mather House resident tutor and SONG graduate school advisor, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere where learning is encouraged and fostered. "It's ridiculous that at a place like Harvard 'nerd' and 'geek' should be derogatory words," said Fridman...
...society's long-term social calendar already includes movie showings of Real Genius, Stand and Deliver and, of course, Revenge of the Nerds. Plans for an all-geek dance where only non-dance music will be played are also in the works...