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About 1500 MIT students and faculty have signed a petition calling on their school to "sever all ties" with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) by 1994 if it continues to deny scholarships to gay students...
...turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution. An actress talks at length about being forced to drop out of a school for the gifted when her librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that was the enemy. "Your father's ears were torn...
Speaking to more than 30 undergraduates in a Sever Hall lecture room, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowry, called on Black students to bring the "Black experience" to Harvard...
...Fall of '88, in a small classroom in Sever, John Clive completely revitalized my love of history. The trouble with most history, in the college-formatted segment of history encased in Books, is that it is badly written. Badly written: boring, numbing, abstruse, statistical, dessicated, inhuman. Learning about the lives and actions of the human race through the bloodless method of sitting still with a sheaf of pages on your lap is difficult enough, but if the writing is also uninspiring...
...Classes. I'm feeling really good about myself. In between Sever and Boylston Hall, I see someone eating a candy bar. I'm not even jealous...