Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final club experience has been an enjoyable part of my Harvard experience. That my final club membership is so controversial is distressing to me since I also proudly consider myself a member of the Harvard community. And that a sizable portion of the rest of the Harvard community is fighting for the inclusion into the club system of Harvard women is also difficult for me to deal with. As I witness the increasing disenfranchisement of the clubs from the Harvard social community, I am compelled more and more to confront these issues intellectually and to seek explanations for and solutions...
...Harvard-Radcliffe's admissions system is fair. First, the decentralized steps involved in the process of reviewing applications make a set quota unlikely. Our understanding of the mechanism of the procedure comes from Asian Americans who play integral parts in the admissions process. Susie Chao, a past steering committee member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, has been a full-fledged Admissions Officer for the past three years. Additionally, Ms. Chao serves as Assistant Director of Minority Recruitment and works with two student recruiters/representatives who are permanent liaisons between the Admissions Office...
When paperworkers in Jay, Maine stepped up their strike against International Paper (IP) last year, they didn't only picket the corporate headquarters of IP; they also picketed the headquarters of Coca-Cola and Bank of Boston, because both companies had a corporate board member who also sat on the board of IP. Making such corporate incest clear to the public demonstrates the structural problem of American capitalism: that a handful of isolated individuals are controlling the economic destiny of millions...
...result of this failure, Smith says, the "designated driver"--the member of a group who stays sober and drives the others home--has become "the concept of the future...It's the easiest way for people to go ahead with their lives and still make a responsible decision...
...tried to take into account some degree of breadth of academic experience," said Christopher A. Ford '89, a member of the committee. The selection committee considers not only grades and recommendations, but also the variety and difficulty of classes taken, he said...