Word: impactful
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Donations to the Steven Biko Fund will provide scholarships for black South Africans to come to Harvard. Earmarking gifts for the regular scholarship fund, an option proposed by the Senior Gift Committee to those who feel they should not give freely to the University, will have minimal impact. Money contributed to the scholarship fund only means that the University will draw less for scholarships from the unrestricted General Fund. Donors are filling the same tub, just from a different side...
Looking back, the one-time student activists can gauge their impact, and they are proud of it. Environmental concerns, the consumer movement, feminism, the 18-year-old vote, and the end of the draft are just some of the changes that the student movement at least helped to spawn. But many also see the conservatism rapidly encroaching on the country today, and find it frightening. They look with hope at the student coalitions arising on campuses today in response to nuclear power, corporate involvement in South Africa, the J.P. Stevens boycott and other issues. This new activism is still only...
Though Masters and Johnson are scrupulously neutral in their attitudes toward homosexuality, their latest study is sure to have a social impact simply because it devotes so much attention to the gay life. As Johnson says: "People who stop and think will say, hey, these are somebody's brothers and sisters, wives and husbands, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors, and they are loved and loving human beings." The book has another implicit message for heterosexuals: it is that homosexuality is not going to go away, whether society ignores it, accepts it or rejects it. In fact, by looking honestly...
President Horner and directors of various Radcliffe offices met yesterday with students to discuss the impact of Radcliffe on women's education now and in the future...
...different possibilities before fixing permanently on a certain advanced degree, or title, as a goal. Jewett's impressions agree; he has the feeling that pre-professionalism peaked a year or two ago. And so it is now, following the reaction and retrenchment of the mid-'70s, that the lasting impact on students of the earlier rebellion is really felt...