Word: heimert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heimert, more than a typical Faculty member or administrator, had to deal with the real student effects of unrest on a very personal House level...
...Heimert's tenure at Eliot coincided with the social changes of the postwar decades...
Parietals rules prohibiting students from entertaining members of the opposite sex in their dorm rooms at night were officialy loosened in the spring of 1970. In addition, Heimert's time at Harvard saw the abolition of official rules governing the tradition of wearing a coat and tie to all meals in the House dining halls...
Ultimately, there was no way to discipline what Heimert calls an increasing number of "wayward students" in the late '60s and early '70s. All students, not just card-carrying members of SDS, and even in the traditionally upper crust world of Eliot House were rebelling against Harvard-and its dress code...
...student asked about his attire] would have been more likely to say 'Fuck you.' Authority was desanctified," Heimert says...