Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the party, a Mather House senior walked up to the platform on which my friends were clustered and asked the 17-year-old boy to dance. That boy said "no" and thought that the matter was closed. The Mather individual in question returned to the platform some time later. Again, he asked my friend to dance; he told my friend that the two of them could "get away from all these girls," as his hand roamed over my friend's lower back and behind...
...least, my friend was surprised. My friend grabbed a young woman who had accompanied the group to Harvard that evening, told the Mather senior that the woman was his girlfriend, and rejected for a second time the invitation to dance...
...older brother, the dee-jay, was then approached by the same Mather senior. The Mather student informed the older brother that he was a homosexual, and the older brother told the Mather senior to stay away from him and his brothers...
...more times that evening, the Mather individual approached my group of friends. My friends were by that time exasperated and, unfamiliar with this train of events, did not know what to do. What they did was engage the Mather individual in exchanges that were--on both sides--bigoted, deeply offensive and abusive. At one point, one of my friends pushed the Mather senior...
...become aware of events too late to prevent the exchanges, but did interfere at the later times in the evening to separate the individuals and to help calm matters. I did expect, after the first heated exchange had ended, that the Mather student would not go out of his way to approach my friends again. Of course, this expectation proved false...