Word: mcdonaldization
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...They kept saying ‘men won’t give to Harvard if their sons don’t come,’” Diana Krumholz McDonald ’77 says, recalling arguments made at events for alums, at football games, and in Harvard Magazine letters to the editor...
Even so, most of the class was “militantly coeducational,” according to McDonald...
...River House ratios] didn’t make for a really good social life because the men felt like you were infringing on their turf,” says McDonald, a Quincy house alum...
Many recall Kirkland as a jock-filled House notoriously unfriendly to women. Men would actually pound on their glasses with forks whenever a woman entered Kirkland dining hall, McDonald says...
That's dramatically different from the liability of, say, McDonald's, in which the company can be sued if a customer anywhere is scalded by hot coffee. The church's legal structure acts as a foil to any attack on the center. And ultimately, headquarters is the Vatican--a sovereign state that is effectively immune from private legal action in the U.S. (The Vatican for its part is publicly against any payout of compensation in sexual-abuse cases.) Church officials claim that even when an archbishop is on record as being the chairman of a diocesan corporation, whether a parish...