Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hauled upstairs for a quick screw by several members on the nearest convenient piece of furniture. "Clubbies," we are told, think of women as objects to be excluded from one's social and intellectual circles and dragged bodily into one's bedroom or pool hall. "Zealots In Protest" scream about the club's collective "closed doors and open zippers." Blacks and other minorities are seldom admitted to the secret cabal, and as if sexism and racism were not enough, no one without the right family connections should expect to be admitted. Or so the story goes...
Harvey wasn't happy--he broke his stick over the Bruin goal in protest. But the worst was yet to come...
...December 1986, Kazakh youths rampaged through Alma Ata to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as party first secretary of Kazakhstan. In July 1987, Crimean Tatars demanded the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea, from which they were removed in 1944. Last February, Armenians and Azerbaijanis began to clash over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave south of the Caucasus. And last week in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet...
...that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening it to Soviet rewriting of history books. Said Michel: "That doesn't wash well with me." After a howl of protest from black leaders, Michel apologized. "My regret is even more profound," said he, "because I believe my public record of over 32 years as a Congressman is without the slightest blot of bigotry or racial insensitivity." True enough, until last week...
...same way, I think Green is misguided in his sympathy for the oh-so sorely-persecuted final clubs. First of all, the demonstration is a protest against the sexism and the elitism of the clubs, not an assortment of legal claims at a court hearing. While we understand that it is legally impracticable to abolish the final clubs, this does not de-legitimize our opposition to them; degeneration can remove them just as effectively, and that degeneration can be brought about by awareness among students...