Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even though the takeover of University Hall was the work of an almost all-white student group, the events of the days and weeks that followed saw the formation of a new coalition between the Black students and other campus radicals...
Although he says he never lost his love for the Harvard community, Pusey had grown increasingly disturbed by what he saw as the gullibility of leftist students and faculty...
Much of the blame can be laid at the doors of Duke's residential fraternities on West Campus, which physically and socially segregate minorities from the elite white-boys who live there. In the Theta Chi house, I saw only one minority. A glance at a decade's worth of group photos revealed only lily-white faces...
...Duke frats, I saw pervasive, overt intolerance. And racial minorities are not the only victims. One Duke student told me "They say ten percent of the student body is gay. But they're so in the closet--if you're gay, no one knows about it. They just go to tearooms...
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...