Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading of names of domestic violence survivors and the puffy-painted T-shirts hung out in the Yard served as shocking reminders of this pressing social problem at Harvard and definitely in the world beyond. In the time you have taken to read this column, 12 women will have been victims of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from husbands, boyfriends and lovers--every 15 seconds a woman in America becomes a victim of domestic violence, according to a panelist at a Tuesday night TBTN panel...
...Unfortunately, Maxim hasn't evolved much past the prehistoric era of men's publications. Maxim is of the creed that men still need scantily clad busty young women leering at them from the cover of a magazine to induce them to read it. While women's magazines traditionally advertise what you can become, Maxim is dedicated to showing guys what they can have...
...Frankly, I admit that I would be more inclined to read Elle if it incorporated some of Maxim's off-color humor and sometimes disgusting articles like "Help! They Mangled My Penis"--a graphically illustrated account of a man's horribly botched attempt at penile enlargement. I'd like to see a similar article entitled, "Revenge of the Silicon Breasts" to deter Pamela Lee Anderson wannabes. The fact is all of these magazines are just junk food for the brain. If they don't make you feel insecure about your height/weight/intellect, they waste your time with their inanity. Guys, welcome...
Volunteers will read the names of women who have lost their lives to domestic violence as part of Take Back the Night Week for 240 minutes...
...letters a year from women requesting their five dollars back. Some of the letters are nasty; they say they don't know what RUS has ever done for them and don't think they should have to pay us anything. They're as nasty as the letters I've read from students angry about the Coalition Against Sexual Violence posters last fall (they displayed statistics found in the Harvard booklet on rape). But without RUS funding, many organizations could die. The organizations and events RUS has sponsored include The Male Athletes Forum, Swanwhite, Crimson Dance Team, the Coalition Against Sexual...