Word: loco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave 18-year-olds the right to vote, almost half of the states in the nation now consider 18 rather than 21 the age of adulthood. This includes almost all college undergraduates, and the redefinition of the legal age virtually dooms the tradition of colleges acting in loco parentis. To survey the future changes in campus life, the Council of Student Personnel Associations in Higher Education commissioned a study by University of Georgia Education Professor D. Parker Young. Some of Young's observations on the social implications of adulthood...
William D. Geer, principal of Newton South High School, said yesterday that the ruling would not apply to the school because almost all the students are under 18 and the school acts "in loco parentis...
...only thing Bok seems sure of is his desire to have the Masters draw up "some thought-out policy" on cohabitation at Harvard, so that he can use it to ward off letters from parents who are worried that he is not acting in loco well enough...
...dean of Freshmen, he will serve in loco parentis for the 1000 first-year men and 200 first year women residing in the dormitories in and around the Yard. He is the Harvard administrator extraordinaire, having sat in a University office since 1940, when he was chosen as an assistant dean. "With the exception of three and a half years during the War. I've been in University Hall ever since," von Stade noted last week, looking out an ivied window of Harvard's main administration building...
...with understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence ticking in Nichols that distinguish it from most of the competition...