Word: phenomenons
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...individual" as a result of alcohol use--give the impression that the administration is cracking down on illicit use of alcohol. The reason that this is a problem is that alcohol's illicit nature makes it all the more desirable. A strictly enforced drinking age only exacerbates this phenomenon, and also makes underage drinkers more likely to binge since their access to alcohol is sporadic...
When alcohol is used responsibly it can enliven many a social event. Underage drinking in an inevitable phenomenon on almost all American college campuses, and Harvard lacks the power to prevent it entirely. While the University cannot communicate such a message, we would like to urge students to exercise moderation and good judgement in their use of this potentially dangerous substance...
...late as the 1980s, there were faculty members acting as senior tutors in the undergraduate houses. The current lack of faculty in house administration is only a recent phenomenon, and not the way the office was meant to be filled, though we have grown accustomed to it. We applaud Dean Lewis for realizing the historical oddity and the loss to the university of today's situation, and we hope that he and the University act to bring faculty back into senior tutorships...
Unfortunately, there are a number of downsides to this phenomenon. One is that some audiences--primarily older folks, younger children and minorities--are being ignored. Another is that some series--the late Northern Exposure, for example--end up choking on their own quirky intelligence, crowded with characters who are less than the sum of their arbitrary tics. A third drawback is that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single...
...when the world it sees is literally dark, white America recoils, or as the Nebraska woman said, it retreats to stereotypes. Frantz Fanon explained this phenomenon as a response to an image of the negative; blacks are automatically deemed bad (inferior, dangerous) by being the opposite of whites. African Americans cannot hide their color the way whites can hide their feelings about color. The only ways they can conceal themselves are to "pass" or disappear into white culture (this is a major theme of early African-American fiction), or to develop secret forms of knowledge or communication, as slaves once...