Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years into the epidemic, it is increasingly clear that much of the panic and scaremongering was not justified. AIDS is not the black death, and never will be. Unlike the plague or the common cold, AIDS is not easily spread. The virus is transmitted only through blood and sexual intercourse. No one has been found to get the virus from saliva, tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual...
...political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. "We thought we'd done good things in the 1960s, but we rested on our laurels...
...main course and generally comes on too strong. It is also inevitable that a perfect substitute for Christine will soon turn up. And it does, in the form of the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). This is not love as usual; this is the need for sexual revenge...
Coalition member Anabella Pitkin '90 said more attention needs to be paid to sexual harassment at Harvard. "What's so interesting about the rape that took place last month is that it was much more publicized. There's a lot more sexual harassment going on at Harvard than we know about," she said...
Harvard Police Department Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse refused to release any information about the incident. Morse said state law prohibits police departments from disclosing information about sensitive crimes, such as sexual assaults...