Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longtime friend and colleague described a more personal side of Loury, saying he is "immature" and rash and intensely leader of the Black community. The friend added that Loury had "a self-destructive personality" which sometimes led him to seek risk and excitement in defiance of social norms...
...Pogo? "It had the faintest possible whiff of social criticism," says Daniel Ellsberg '52. "It was slightly spoofing the establishment." Then, just as the races for the Republican and Democratic nominations were reaching a peak, The Crimson distributed 3000 free "I Go Pogo" buttons to students, who devoured the newspaper's supply of buttons in less than 90 minutes...
...campaigning for a comic strip character, and a 'possum at that, may at first glance seem to be the height of sophomoric absurdity. Whether the Pogo Riot served merely as a forum in which restless College students could release pent-up energies or whether it was indicative of a social and political restlessness remains an issue for debate...
...past, students had to earn an "A" or "Aminus" in a full course or two half courses in thethree areas of human knowledge--natural sciences,social sciences and the humanities. The Facultyvoted in 1984 to drop the distributionrequirements, but it raised the minimum gradepoint average...
...requirement that women friends of students must enter the Houses in groups or not at all is an unwarranted display of paternalism on the part of University Hall, ridiculous in its conception and a nuisance in its effect. The history of Harvard social life during the five years of the House plan gives no excuse for such Pinkerton tactics, while the regulation itself points the finger of suspicion at every young lady who has ever been entertained unchaperoned within Harvard walls...