Word: membership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black students are halted at the entrance of Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked to present "membership cards." Three weeks of student protest and picketing later, the owner signs a 126-word statement aserting that "race, creed or color" will not keep patrons out of the club...
...experience when they are tossed into one of the college-size, 2,000-to-4,000-student behemoths often found these days in major cities and their suburbs. Smaller schools not only allow students and teachers to know one another better; they also have less crowding and competition for membership in bands, student councils, sports teams and other extracurricular activities through which students express and define themselves...
...ostensible goals of the club are good ones, but its nebulous membership policy is troubling. Without the benefit of College endorsement (and no single-sex social organization will or should be recognized by the College), the Seneca looks too much like a final club. And what Harvard women--and, for that matter, all undergraduates--need is for social life at the College to become less and not more fractionalized...
...Ohio after being freed from slavery and started passing for white. Dorothy Westerinen, who has known all this for only a few months, says, "I'm very proud to share a black lineage." I'm so proud of her, I'm tempted to buy her an N.A.A.C.P. life membership...
...always unfortunate that Mr. Boutros-Ghali did not have the skills to successfully manage the most important relationship for any secretary general, which is smooth cooperation with the United States." U.N. insiders would be forgiven for finding that response a tad arrogant from a country that hasn't paid membership dues since the Reagan presidency. Good thing Boutros-Ghali doesn't have many friends...