Word: one
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, when Wisconsin activists had difficulty coordinating a rally, students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison decided to hold one on campus, Bowman says. In the end, their enthusiasm sparked a rally at the state capitol...
...really like the lectures," I heard one student say. "They make me feel guilty." Lectures do seem designed to produce guilt. This sense of guilt is not productive or constructive, the kind that sparks a re-examination of societal structures and behavior. This guilt is self-complacent, rooted in the fact that we Harvard students were born privileged and "those people" weren't. And that's as far as social reflection goes...
SECTIONS are even worse. While I sit through lecture with a vague feeling of malaise, the weekly one and a half hour section completely unnerves me. Sections vary greatly in tone and quality, to be sure, with more than 40 offered every week, but as a minority student in a class discussing "white guilt," I am becoming more disturbed as the semester progresses. It is not an enjoyable or comfortable situation...
...still manage to have protracted discussions--employing several dozen "those people"--that usually skirt around the bigger social issues. For example, during a half-hour discussion of Carver's "Cathedral," nobody proposed that the story might be about prejudice. Instead we discussed the problems of communication between one man and his wife...
Look to the example of your peers. A woman of Adams House--Adams House!--has resolved to come here to New Haven to pray for victory. She doesn't even have a ticket; she is barred from the Yale Bowl. Her plan? To enter one of Yale's crumbling libraries and hold a Satanic ritual--a ritual calling upon all the powers of darkness...