Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the auspices of various community groups, churches and PBH, Harvard's main institution for public service, these students spend their time doing things like counseling children, serving in soup lines and tutoring convicts in and around Boston. PBH alone had about 1000 participants last year who put in anywhere...
It is no wonder, then, that three years later Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution not to have given any organized support to the growing, interdisciplinary field. It is also no wonder that the Women's Studies committee one year ago could not lure renowned literary critic Elaine Showalter...
But however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom.
An older, more extreme version of Fundamentalism is still around, symbolized most visibly by South Carolina's Bob Jones University (enrollment: 5,500), which did not admit blacks until 1971 and still forbids interracial dating. Chancellor Bob Jones Jr. of the superstrict institution (supervised dating, no pop music, rigid dress...
While the Globe stopped short of advocating Harvard's divestment from South Africa-related companies, students have urged Harvard to divest and to end any ties with the country. The University has maintained the divestment is not necessarily effective and that is not proper for an educational institution to take...