Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the possible long-term impact of the review, participants describe it as a low-key process intended simply to give administrators a better understanding of how the teaching of undergraduates is played out on a day-to-day basis...
SOME Harvard students and faculty would do well to learn this lesson. At the beginning of every school year, the Crimson Key Society shows Love Story to first-year students in Rocky-Horror fashion with Crimson Key members yelling out dozens of dark jokes...
...Crimson Key members have responded to these charges by stressing that their remarks were not just directed at women, but also at cancer patients, the dead and administrators, among others. They say that their intent was not to be sexist, but just to make people laugh...
...honest. I laughed. And I don't believe that a single Crimson Key member can be fairly accused of believing in sexist stereotypes. But the same jokes which are funny at Crimson Key get-togethers around a VCR take on new meaning in the context of orientation to Harvard...
When Crimson Key members shout "bitch!" every time the female protagonist comes on screen, first-year students get the impression that sexist attitudes are acceptable here. For all their claims about not singling out women, Crimson Key members would never shout classic racist epithets or homophobic slurs at the movie screen...