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...It’s not because I am hoping to catch a clubby guy, or because I have a date rape fantasy. I don’t go because I’m a classist, or because I’m particularly preppy??€”I may be both of those things, but that is not why I pay frequent visits to many a Mount Auburn St. mansion. I go because, on a Saturday night, there is more appeal in spending time in spacious lounges with people I’m likely to know than in an unfamiliar sweaty dorm...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Committee: Party Buzz-Kill | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...tolerance, the atmosphere at Harvard then for gay people was ambivalent at best. Although much of today’s tolerance can be traced back to the activism of this seminal year, 1981 was just as remarkable for its setbacks.‘IT’S JUST NOT PREPPY??€™In many respects, 1981 seems more distant a past than just 25 years.In May 1981, two male undergraduates were assaulted for standing arm-in-arm at the Park Street T station. There were complaints from gay undergraduates who found menacing posters on their doors throughout the year...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As They Came Out, Students Faced Homophobia | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...guess it’s natural. When we believe something is imperfect or unjust, we implicitly blame people who are a part of it. Suddenly their preppiness transforms itself into a horrible moral fault and they aren’t just preppy??€”they’re callous and ambitious, cynical and manipulative. In my twisted logic and progressive fervor they become little Nixons instead of the hard-working, idealistic people they...

Author: By Andrew Golis, | Title: I Hate Being Wrong | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

However, the weak attempt of Harvard to be preppy came under fire directly. One person complains that Harvard kids “aren’t preppy??€¦they just half-ass it. Where are the Nantucket red shorts? Where are the seersucker pants...

Author: By Amanda L. Rautenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Poppin' Fresh | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

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