Word: mainstreaming
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...lifestyles. Sex-segregated housing is a policy that remains in place despite our present pedagogy, in deference to a bygone regime of broader tutelage that worked well enough for centuries.In any case, there’s really no need to rely solely on tradition: Sex-segregated housing reflects mainstream American society, where young, unmarried men and women living together in close quarters is something that is frowned upon. The reasons range from an intuitive sense of decency to practical worries about discomfort and hook-ups, all of which seem contrived or “medieval” to a good...
...although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition...
...midst of middle-school hip-hop is the unique point in their repertoire. Other people have tried to develop their own sound and have tried to develop their own record label once they had a hit-record. Only the Beasties pioneered white-boys’ involvement in mainstream hip-hop. The current marketplace of rap albums carried almost entirely by the white-suburban market was introduced with the push of “License to Ill”—which they almost called Don't Be a Faggot?...
...there is, really. I've always liked kind of independent spirits, because they're not fake. They've kind of accepted the fact that this is the way for them, and they're not going to hide their light. I've always felt myself a little bit outside the mainstream. My parents never told me that there was any other way to be. They always insisted that I was going to work for a living, that I didn't have to get married, that I didn't have to take any old job, that I should fight for something that...
...extreme. Erring on the side of this extremism are many of the Harvard women’s groups leading the women’s center charge. Rather than allowing these already vocal groups to call the shots in the development of the center, the College should encourage mainstream students to articulate their visions for the project. That means doing more than taking a poll of a measly 219 students, as the Undergraduate Council did, many of whom no doubt were members of these organizations...