Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University severed its links to the nine all-male final clubs two years ago. Despite this, the clubs maintain the ties that really count, those with the Harvard community at large. The recent news that an employee in the development office, Nancy Couch, works on her own time as a consultant to the Porcellian Club highlights the enduring place the clubs enjoy at Harvard...
Oughta: Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa. Uncontestably the best male performance of the year...
...addition, the College's quota system may have affected which houses went random. The quotas require that the ratio of sophomore men to women be between 1:1 and 2:1. If a house had reached its quota for male or female sophomores, the computer would only accept members of the opposite...
...Date rape, according to some researchers, is a major social problem, so far studied mostly through surveys of college students. In a three-year study of 6,200 male and female students on 32 campuses, Kent State Psychologist Mary Koss found that 15% of all women reported experiences that met legal definitions of forcible rape. More than half those cases were date rapes. Andrea Parrot, a lecturer at Cornell University, estimates that 20% of college women at two campuses she surveyed had been forced into sex during their college years or before, and most of these incidents were date rapes...
...theory of date rape is that men and women tend to misread each other's signals, particularly a soft-spoken no that many males assume means yes or at least maybe. Says one student at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.: "There are different kinds of nos. 'Noooo . . .' is one thing. 'NO, get your filthy hands off me!' is another." Some feminists argue that the U.S. has a "rape culture" in which males are encouraged to treat women aggressively and women are trained to submit. Some surveys back up that dark ideological view of male sexual behavior. In Koss's study...