Word: olin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly unfettered use of sex as a come-on in the mass media is a new and unsettling factor, overwhelming the young in stimulation -- soap operas, cable television, blatantly erotic ads for Obsession perfume. But apart from saying "watch" or "buy," these sensations offer no guiding context. Says Nancy Olin, teen- education coordinator for Boston Planned Parenthood: "The daytime soaps show constant and irresponsible sexual behavior: no waiting, very few morals...
...Olin stresses that it is appropriate to explain things differently at different ages. Until perhaps age eight, the questions are mainly biological and the answers should be too. But at ten, parents and educators need to explain masturbation, wet dreams and menstruation, for example. At that age, she says, children do not need to know about birth control. Sex educators agree that girls should understand in advance the most important and indeed shocking physical changes that will affect their bodies during their lifetimes. And boys, who mature more slowly and undergo less dramatic physical changes, should nonetheless be told what...
...program, supported by a $900,000 grant from the John M. Olin Foundation, includes courses in Law and Economics, research by professors, visiting lecturers, and a series of seminars and conferences. The grant also provides funds for student research fellowships and two prizes of $2000 each for the best papers in this field at the end of the year...
Then, when the department voted to ask Eric Olin Wright of the University of Wisconsin to come to Harvard, Bok once again overturned the decision...
Cambodia: Past and Present: Dith Pran, Olin-Sang Auditorium, Brandeis...