Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspapers carrying stories about the Harvard sex scandal are now lining garbage cans throughout the country, and soon the affair will slip quietly from the public consciousness. But the discussion engendered in the CRIMSON and elsewhere has revealed an important deficiency in University policy on the sexual problems and social development of the average Harvard student...
Officials charged with maintaining standards of conduct within the University, and amicable relations with the outside world, unavoidably deal in extremes. The undergraduates they see are disciplinary problems whose activities can "move us closer and closer to outright scandal." As Dean Monro, the College's chief disciplinary officer, wrote to the CRIMSON: "We are worried that the serious misbehavior of a few, and the general laxness in administration may bring the whole system into disrepute...
Psychiatrists attached to the University Health Services, on the other hand, are not responsible for the reputation of "the whole system," nor concerned primarily with the students whose "serious misbehavior" could result in scandal. The students they meet in this regard are those who suffer severe psychological reactions to sexual relationships...
...both instances, University officials are dealing with a very small percentage of the student body: those who might precipitate scandal by their actions, or those who require psychiatric help as a result of traumatic sexual experiences...
...psychedelic drug scandal has come one gone without shaking the faith of a small but dedicated segment of the community in plain old marijuana. Cambridge does not have a drug problem. It does, however, harbor a very small sub-culture that regards cannabis as little less than a necessity. These people are not addicts, because marijuana, or "pot" as it is better known by devotees and would-be hipsters ("weed," "grass" and less printable names are also used), does not cause addiction. Still, a few local residents would agree with the young man who declared passionately. "I love...