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...fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm?? than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American colleges...
...While that was understandable a hundred years ago (and still is in many less developed parts of the world), modern women have little excuse. We voice awareness of male-female equality, but nonetheless act in ways that perpetuate the conception of a man as “the norm?? and a woman as an aberration...
...It’s a constant process,” says Barusch. “But the policy will be permanent.” In her eyes, the insertion to the code will say to other employers and universities that “at Harvard, this is a community norm??we don’t discriminate.”The world may not change when the nondiscrimination code is amended. It’s “one of the initial steps,” says BGLTSA political chair Joshua D. Smith ’08.WHAT...
...Gordon says that Reeves signaled his support at the incumbent’s campaign kick-off event last June. Still, according to Winters, such gestures—which fall within the election-season norm??don’t imply an all-out endorsement. For many incumbents, gaining a challenger’s secondary and tertiary votes in Cambridge’s idiosyncratic proportional-representation system can spell electoral success...
...sarcasm in the preceding paragraph upset anyone’s utopian visions about college life, so I’m happy to entertain the possibility that late nights are a necessity in the open and experimental academic atmosphere. Some might argue that only by challenging absolutely every social norm??especially bedtime and eating routines—can a university produce the new progressive ideas that put it at the forefront of its goal to move society forward. Could it be that the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War campaign of the 1970s are cut from...