Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of us in the class--people who had been involved in social activism over the years--felt that to have a bunch of symposia that were supposed to discuss the problems of the day without ever a word about Harvard's controversies was hypocritical," said James A. Paul '63, one of the alumni who petitioned for this symposium...
...Compared to four or five years ago, there is a stirring among students," says James E. Miller, a lecturer in Social Studies and author of Democracy Is In The Streets; From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, one of the first books in the recent wave of studies on the 1960s. "Students today are looking for alternatives in a way which I have not seen in a while," he says...
...aside from these minor social problems, Anderson says that the Harvard experience, for her, has been excellent. "I think it's a great opportunity for a Black person here. Myself especially, being the child of immigrants, working our way up to where we are now, being able to have the opportunity to go to such an illustrious institution...
...Theoharis believes foreign policy agitation may already have reached its peak, she does not believe activism in general is dying out. She says students are working for social and political changes closer to home, where students can make a visible difference--like the one sought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, who has charged the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, with sexual discrimination...
...president of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH), which leads dozens of social and community service projects, Truong has tried to do just that. He says in the past several years PBH has grown increasingly popular among students, alumni and with the administration, becoming a part of a new activism that has social service as its focus...