Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University severed its ties with the nine all-male final clubs, which today still stand as reminders of a Harvard that should have passed away long ago. With separate entrances for women, and an elitist atmosphere designed to propagate a traditional social hierarchy, the clubs have no place at this university. At any university for that matter...
...still they persist, counting fully 10 percent of all Harvard undergraduates among their members. And that doesn't begin to include the large number of women who regularly attend their social functions, nor the large number of men who accept their punching invitations and make their best effort to become a member. The University has made its formal rebuke of the clubs, denying them status as official student organizations in 1984; what has been lacking is an equally strong severing of ties with the clubs by us, the student body...
...showing divestment activists who really didn't want to risk their college social life or career prospects by giving their all to the movement, the movie made the point that everyone in the Black community should not be expected to protest for divestment. Although Black people are lumped together in one group due to the color of their skin, Blacks remain individuals and it stands to reason that every Black would not be pro-divestment...
WHEN Lee strayed from the issues of unity and education and attempted to depict campus social life, he blew reality entirely out of proportion...
...club from a speeding car knocked a gay man unconscious, leaving him permanently brain damaged. In Fort Lauderdale, a pickup truck swerved onto the sidewalk outside a popular gay bar, killing a 33-year-old man. Randy Schell, a client advocate at Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco social-service agency, reports cases of men being beaten with logging chains and sliced with razors. "Anything you could imagine being used to desecrate another human being has been used," he says...