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Viewers who chose ignore the deep questions of the company’s earlier production, “Charlie Brown,” cannot do the same here. Darkness is ubiquitous. It fills each troubling monologue, each careful gesture, each overt physical action...
...already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what it perceives as their wishes. You—alumni of years past, and those that will become alumni after today’s ceremonies—have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that there’ll be no donations from you until it is clear the money will not be invested...
...dining halls.Colantuono, who went on to become president of the Undergraduate Assembly, tells of a casual and habitual homophobia, unthinkable at the College today.“At that time in American society generally and in the culture of Harvard, there was still a lot of support for overt homophobic behavior,” he says.The first of a series of contentions erupted in November 1980 when the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life refused to include a leaflet from the GSA in its packet distributed to registering students. The committee avoided the issue by agreeing to send...
...been required. At the UC’s next meeting, the legislation was deemed to have passed. The ultimate outcome compromised the UC’s strong stance against student group discrimination, and we were disillusioned by the procedural hanky-panky that brought it about.In the midst of the overt politicking, the UC managed a number of advocacy successes this spring. Their efforts to make Harvard maintenance workers wear identification badges while on the job were welcome, and their campaign to give Harvard students a more free choice of roommates by eliminating restrictions on mixed gender rooming will improve...
...allowing-and even condoning-such overt expressions of spirituality, China's leaders are finally catching up with the country's religious revolution. Even by the government's own conservative estimate, China now has more than 200 million worshippers of all faiths, double the number just nine years ago. The inroads made by apocalyptic Christian cults in China's countryside have garnered more international attention, but the larger trend is the renaissance of Buddhism and folk religions, which blend Taoism, Confucianism, shamanism, ancestor reverence and local-deity worship into a potent mix of spirituality. More than half of the nation...