Word: peered
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...addition the Office sponsors two students groups, Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE), which "organizes educational forums in order to promote racial awareness and address concerns about the campus and national racial climates," and Students at Harvard Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (SHARE), a multicultural peer education program...
...this is not a case of the advancing enemy. The campus furor over Inside Edge is just another example of Harvard taking itself too seriously. The "best and the brightest," as Perspective so arrogantly puts it, are susceptible to the same peer pressures as everyone else. Most kids who buy Inside Edge are probably just as insecure, and just as innocuous, as the kids who write it. A real-life Edge Man would be too drunk to read...
...devout Pepsi drinker. Despite shifts in fads and general opinion, I was true to my soft drink. Peer pressure and public ridicule could never sway my faith sneered at the weak-willed fools who fluctuated monthly between Pepsi and that other cola...
...that kids this age really know it's too early to be having sex," says Heather Johnston Nicholson, director of the National Resource Center for Girls Inc., in Indianapolis. "But when you're that age, you don't want to be considered a complete dweeb. We're establishing a peer group that says it's O.K. not to be sexually active...
Whether adolescents become sexually active seems to depend to a large extent on peer pressure at a particular school. Some schools go so far as to ban dating, but at others "it's embarrassing if you haven't had sex, and you're under pressure to lose your virginity quickly," says Tsunetsugu Munakata, associate professor of health at Tsukuba University. "At one school I heard students would go to love hotels in their uniforms," declares Tetsuya Iizuka, 19, who lost his virginity four years ago, an experience "that made me the center of attention in high school...