Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethnocentric identities do not have a very good grasp of their own behavior. At the root of such behavior is an emotional preference (and for a few an intellectual preference as well) for certain parochial moorings--which might be race-linked for Black students, religious-linked for Jewish and Mormon students, language-linked and nationality-linked for Hispanic students, etc, etc. I did not say in my February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons--Brian Stevens--Timothy Wilkins) read...
...degree to which any given student will temper his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions. Some prefer a foot in parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan cross-roads, which explains the existence of a Church of the Latter-Day-Saints on Brattle Street for Harvard's Mormon students and a Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing to enjoy parochial moorings while trekking Harvard...
...image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...
...statistics on "returning missionaries." The current center, Trevor Matich, has hiked to all of the big four quarterbacks: Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young and Bosco, the national leader in total offense. Matich has managed this by breaking up his playing career with a year and a half of Mormon preaching in Mexico. "When you see kids in adobe houses twelve to a room," he says, "you don't care so much about...
...likeliest successor is off recommending love in South Africa, a considerable irony, since exactly 36 blacks are counted among B.Y.U.'s 26,000 students, and seven are members of the football team. They are outnumbered by Polynesians. "Our recruiting is not predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably...