Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vanderpool was the place kicker on the freshman football team during the 1985 season, and also ran on the track team. He concentrated in Social Studies...
Little basis exists for this negative stereotype, said Robert K. Weatherall, director of career services and preprofessional advising. He said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported...
...summit can be something other than just a harmless "getting to know you" social event or a public signing. In 1961 Soviet leader Khrushchev left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
...ideas about feminism.' Then there are the assimilationists, gay men mostly, who don't want to draw attention to their sexuality, and a growing number of special-interest factions, like the new Chicano-lesbian group. Suddenly Yale has a reputation as a gay school: Last spring, while most campuswide social activities withered away under Connecticut's new legal drinking age of 21, 1000 students attended the annual gay-lesbian ball...
...Social life on campus has subsequently retreated to a furtiveness last seen during Prohibition. No more huge bashes with dining-hall floors reeking from spilled beer and courtyards given over to the all-night concocting of strawberry daquiris. Students are still drinking as much, possibly more, than ever; only now, they get soaked privately in their rooms before going out. Then, for thrills, they might go to a bowling or ice-skating party. Better yet, they join one of the fraternities...