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...ecumenical talks, the two church leaders inaugurated a second round of negotiations to examine whether Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism could come to recognize each other's priests and bishops. Such recognition would end 4 1/2 centuries of separation between two major wings of Christianity and pave the way for reunion...
...this weekend's minority alumni reunion, Edward Dawson '81 remembered the time that President Derek C. Bok fled from student activists in a squad car. A discussion about the University's investments in South Africa had turned into an angry crowd, and Bok felt threatened. "Students were so vociferous," Dawson said...
...example of Black students' new efforts is the minority reunion itself. In 1985, the BSA, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women and the Afro-American Cultural Center planned the first minority alumni weekend. It took nearly a year to plan, says Anne C. Bailey '86, one of the organizers, "but by the time the weekend rolled around there was a lot of administration support." The reunion is now held every other year...
...suppose it's not the planners fault. From my experience, any event in the Union is doomed to failure. Which the "Reunion at the Union" was. The nominal purpose of Senior Events is for the seniors to get together for their last fling and have a great time before our relatives come in and ruin it at Commencement with their drippy sentimentality, boring reminiscences and insipid advice...
...shadow of the 1960s may also limit student activism on campus. Who wants to be lumped in with blindly idealistic 1960s radicals? Rallies on campus conjure up images of the violent University Hall takeover. These images may provoke nostalgia among reunion alumni but create moral ambivalence in the minds of most of today's students...