Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welcoming that challenge also means dealing equitably with groups with which was disagree. So we were troubled by the manner in which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
...emergence of such magazines as Yisei (Korean-American), HQ (gay, lesbian and bisexual), the rag (feminist) and Point of Reference (Greek-American) forms only part of identity politics. Rallies and angry letters form some of the other salvos...
...even if Yisei, HQ, the rag and Point of Reference cease publication and fewer identity-politics stories make the front page of The Crimson, most of Harvard, like much of the Class of '93, won't perceive much difference at all.Crimson File PhotoBridget A. Kerrigan '91 drew national attention and condemnation on campus when she hung a Confederate flag in her window two springs...
...Perspective is run by a rag-tag group of liberal intellectuals who meet in a dingy basement office at Memorial Hall described by President Jesse M. Furman '94 as "pathetic." The closest thing to banquets are pizza parties...
...dances, all onstage action freezes inexplicably. A rush-hour scene in New York City, however, is choreographed with ingenious commotion, presenting a smorgasbord of traffic, cops, spills, swinging ladders, lost people and a stolen pocket-watch, served up to the show's only instrumental number, a classic, light-hearted rag...