Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city had to respond to [Harvard's] request, just as we would have had to respond if someone had called up and said 'Look, there are six people in my living room. They don't belong there and I want them out,'" says former City Manager James L. Sullivan...
Then he decided it wasn't so bad after all. "But they are!" he insisted. And most of the few hundred students in the room greeted his remarks with uproarous applause...
...that lecture supposed to be inspirational to the women students in the room--already outnumbered by men 4 to 1? Here was a political leader casting doubt on women, and most of their class eagerly applauding him. It is alienating enough for these students to sit as the only woman in their section, or one of two or three women, as it usually is in Gov intro courses. Now they were insulted by a man they are supposed to look...
That's not surprising. While watching the Geogetown-Illinois basketball game in a fraternity common room, the camera panned across Black faces on the Georgetown bench. One member yelled out "Twenty years for armed robbery, 25 for murder, 10 for rape..." to raucous laughter from the brothers...
Then I remembered why I went to Harvard. I do not deny that racism and homophobia exist on this campus. But there is a difference. Here, intolerance is intolerable. A racial slur in a house common room at Harvard would draw instant condemnation. At Duke, I saw racist, sexist and homophobic sentiments accepted--and even encouraged--in fraternities...