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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students are working to reform the organizations rules, as well as directly addressing their financial insecurity. Business Manager Jesse L. Margolis '99 has begun to seek revenue from advertisements, according to Haggar...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: After Year of Money Woes, Advocate Reorganizes | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...gain a better insight into this dilemma, we must first seek to recognize how Harvard promotes conformity, and then to determine appropriate methods of resistance. One common method that is used to indoctrinate precocious young undergraduates with the philosophy necessary to succeed among America's elite is to place an inordinate value on tradition. The enshrinement of tradition begins with Harvard itself; students are continually exposed to the notion that Harvard's storied past, its influential alumni, and its continuing prestige are worthy of an almost sacred respect...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Harvard Teaches Conformity | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...students say they rarely, if ever, take the opportunity to seek out professors...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Required Office Hours Don't Result in Contact | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...first black to seek the Republican presidential nomination, Keyes downplays his race and emphasizes the broad appeal of values...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: A Voice for Values | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...revenue is often unconnected with morality. In the late 1970s, for instance, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission supported an Atlantic City casino ban on card counters, who were beating the house at blackjack, on the ground that if the casinos weren't profitable other casino companies would not seek licenses, thereby slowing the economic revival of Atlantic City and reducing the flow of state taxes. In other words, the state had a stake in seeing to it that its citizens were systematically relieved of their paychecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMOKE GETS IN THEIR EYES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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