Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inferior as well. An incident in Gayle's first semester demonstrates how the University often ignores the demands put on student mothers. In one of her classes, an evening hourly was scheduled. Some varsity athletes were permitted to take the test early, but Gail, though she told the head section person she had to be home with her children in the evening, was not. "They couldn't take into account my problem--I wasn't even as good as a jock. They didn't care about my children, as long as I took that fucking exam. I hated myself taking...
...four women agreed that section leaders cause the greatest problems. These women, older than most of the section people who give them their grades, see many of them as narrow individuals, inundated with academia. Susanna's darkest hour came during her freshman year in biology class. Her section leader was explaining how wonderful were all the new machines that aid childbirth. Susanna "just started tentatively trying to talk about how I have had a kid and I hadn't wanted any machines around and it was very important to me to expose myself in some way to the furies...
...finale for those of us who came to Harvard after hearing stories about guys like Randy Roth and Brian Petrovek, who couldn't wait to get rowdy in section 18 or to sing all the way home on the Red Line after watching a bunch of Ryan O'Neal types dance around the Boston Garden...
...mean, how bummed out is the guy who wanted to take time off until Harvard hockey got better, but decided not to so he wouldn't miss any of George's games? And what about the manic fan in section 14 with the orange hat and the rubber chicken, the one who always leaned over the glass to chew out the refs? What will...
...early favorite was Gov. Cliff Finch, a rough-hewn country boy from Northeast Mississippi--a section of the United States that rivals Louisiana's Cajun Country as the most removed from life as we know it. A self-proclaimed reformed racist and unquestionably a political opportunist, Finch had managed to put together a coalition of small farmers and poor laborers, both black and white. He appealed to poor folks with vague platitudes about working together, hand in hand, for the betterment of all. His symbols were the lunchpail and bulldozer. But after two years in office, it became painfully obvious...