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...Ronetta L. Fagan '94, who is Black, it was a simple question of character. "I've never been sort of a group joiner," she says...
...then the letters started pouring in. Serious letters. From seriously bored people. Depressed senior citizens. Juvenile delinquents. Drunks of all ages, colors and creeds. So The Boring Institute began issuing tips--useful, helpful, serious tips--on beating boredom. "Get the reading habit." "Develop hobbies." "Be a joiner." "Say, 'I can!'" "Be nice to yourself...
...downtown skyscraper, the staff of 100 were traumatized. Secretaries wept as the intruders posted notices on the inlaid-glass walls, changed the door locks and dismantled automatic-teller machines. "We kept hearing the rumors, but nobody thought that this time it would be us," sighed Teller Erica Joiner, 30, who watched as armed guards took up positions in the lobby and federal officials affixed blue seals to cash drawers...
Aside from Bok, Calkins was the most active and outspoken member of the Corporation during his tenure. He helped forward the Harvard-Radcliffe joiner and played a role in overhauling Harvard's administration in the early 1970s. Calkins spearheaded reforms in Harvard's investment policy, creating Harvard's "intensive dialogue" strategy, designed to improve the South African operations of companies in which Harvard invests...
This portrait of the student as conformist and joiner provides a dramatic contrast with the bitterly anti-Establishment days of the Viet Nam War and its aftermath. Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were...