Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We're here to celebrate how we can succeed in changing this institution, and if we can succeed in changing this institution, we can change the world," said Mary E. Summers '70, a 1969 protestor who was the main speaker.
As a leading academic institution, Harvard should act immediately to change this harmful public perception. If Harvard stopped using the SAT as a criterion for admission, other institutions would follow and the mania so prevalent among high school students would ease.
"The students took a hammer to a very delicate kind of institution. The immediate result was the construction of a wall of suspicion between the students and the administration," says Epps.
Harvard had always been an untouchable, elite institution, maintaining an uneasy coexistence with a large industrial city. City residents tended to be suspicious, if not hostile, to the Harvard community. The University, for its own part, tended to ignore community concerns.
Unfortunately none of these myriad issues came out in the Times, which was too busy throwing insults to step back and take a serious look at the issue. This major press institution had an opportunity to address a vital question about the appropriate role of the press in society, and...