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...Students] want to go out and have fun and be silly, but they feel like they need alcohol as an excuse,” Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07 said. “They don’t feel like it’s acceptable to be silly, energetic and do party-type things without alcohol as an excuse...
...Shirley V. Cardona ’06 began boxing January of last year, encouraged by a friend on the soccer team who was also interested in the sport. “I spar with the guys all the time,” she says. “A lot of the girls beat the guys...
...asks gravely. He carries a businesslike legal pad and wears an intent expression as he walks through the Yard with his father in tow. A high school junior, Nick is on the familiar college tour, squeezing Harvard in between visits to Brandeis and Yale. Rose and Shirley are looking much more excited. The two women, both from Virginia, have put in their time at the Coop. “I got six Harvard sweatshirts!,” crows Rose. She’s not keeping them all—they’re for her kids and grandchildren...
...study commissioned by the president of Princeton University, Shirley M. Tilghman, has found that female faculty members in the sciences and engineering are regularly subjected to gender discrimination and feel like second-class citizens in their departments. Like many things in academia, the climate among faculty sets a tone that filters down to graduate and undergraduate students. Sexist behavior that makes women feel unwelcome in the sciences is deplorable, and it is reassuring that Princeton has devoted attention to combat this systemic problem...
DIED. John J. Geoghan, 68, former Catholic priest and convicted child molester, after being strangled by an inmate serving a life sentence for killing a man he believed was gay; in a maximum security facility in Shirley, Massachusetts. Geoghan was accused of sexually abusing up to 150 boys during his 30 years as a priest, and last year was convicted of fondling a 10-year-old boy in Boston in 1991. After his sentencing, Geoghan was sent to the protective custody facility in Shirley because authorities worried he would be attacked by fellow inmates. Joseph L. Druce...