Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual and semi-sexual interplay in the bathroom for a period of time. He then leaves, only to return with his badge, arresting everyone who had been loitering (and not necessarily participating in the sexual conduct). We also know that the men have been charged with "open and gross lewdness"--a felony, I am told by Kevin Cathcart, the co-director of Gay Lesbian Advocates and Defenders of Boston...
...Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Patricia Santella, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young
...society defines "open and gross lewdness" to be a crime. That much is undeniable. But ambiguities around the law itself, and its enforcement, do remain. Why is "open and gross lewdness" a crime? Would heterosexuals in analogous situations have been arrested? What about our society pressures gays into anonymous sexual encounters? Why do students feel so threatened by this kind of sex? Any responsible reaction to the Science Center bathroom arrests must look at these questions as well as at the circumstances surrounding the arrests themselves...
...arrests of 12 men on charges of "open and gross lewdness" in the Science Center bathroom over the past several weeks has provoked a storm of protests from campus gay activists. They complain that the police were insensitive in the handling of the arrested men and that the recent crackdown on sexual activity in the Science Center is necessarily a symptom of hatred of gays...
Unfortunately, my roommate (to protect his identity, I'll call him Jonathan E. Gross '92) has a genetic predisposition to Harvard irritatus. When classes are in session, he is a brilliant, fun-loving, caring fellow. Sure, he has a few quirks--an addiction to aged Jello here, an unfortunate tendency to confuse Miami Hurricane quarterbacks with God there--but what do you expect from a philosophy concentrator whose conception of the real world is derived from epistemological restructuralized empiricism? (This means he can't remember where he left his bookbag.) As an etiquette-impaired individual whose social graces have been...