Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Membership in the club, which meets once a week on Saturdays is open to all Harvard women who want to join, or who are able to define themselves in anyway as "experienced." While the club does not host speakers, there is an official LEWD photograph and theme song. Sometimes, the "experienced" in the club's name changes to a different adjective to "match the mood of the week," Shirley explains. The group has, on occasion, been the "exotic" and "exciting" women drinkers as well...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verge of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...significant political connections because of the nature of their appointments. Chosen on the basis of their work as political "practitioners," their ranks include Robin Renwick, who served as Loar Soames' advisors in Zimbabwe, Benigno Aquino, ex-Presidential candidate in the Phillipines, and Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung, who will join the program next year...
...Peter J. Gomes, a Black administrator who has worked formally and informally with Black student groups over the years, claims that Black students who join these groups continue to be viewed as "anti-white," adding that Black students face mainstream pressure not to join Black groups as well as pressure from the Black community not to join predominantly white organizations...
More cautious about defining themselves by their race, incoming Black students today are more likely to join an all-Black cultural group than a political one, several Black leaders say. These groups appear less threatening since Black students, "can join without buying an ideology," says Gomes. A member of Diaspora agrees, saying, "We don't tell anyone they're politically incorrect" In addition, these more conservative--and often more affluent--Black students have formed new types of groups such as the Percy C. Julian Society, a Black pre-med support group, and intercollegiate Black fraternities and sororities. By the late...