Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal receives a yes vote by the full council on Sunday, the social activities committee will bid for an April concert, Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-'92 said yesterday...
Eugene S. Kim '92, social activities chair, said that that a B-52's concert would not be a repeat of the Vega concert. "This isn't someone solo singing depressing songs about suicide," Kim said...
...find an example of this blind spot, we need look no further than the most popular course on campus this semester, Gen. Ed. 105, "Literature of Social Reflection." Taught by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles '50, the course offers a reading list of predominantly white male authors, like James Agee, George Orwell, and Raymond Carver, although it does include a smattering of women and minorities, such as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, and Flannery O'Connor. The authors and texts, supplemented by occasional movies and documentaries, are divided into categories like "Ordinary American, So-called Working Class Men and Women: Several Angles...
...Ones of New Mexico, Professor Coles read a long section about an elderly Mexican woman's thoughts as she approached the end of her life. Then he asked the audience to think about the differences between their lives and her life: differences in culture, language, geographic location, social status, education. As is customary in this class, he asked for reflection on differences, not similarities; he asked his audience to create a distance between themselves and the people they meet in the readings. He doesn't seem to expect the students to emphathize with the characters...
...Smokeout, despite its low-key approach, is characteristic of changes in attitudes toward smoking, said Joanne Schellenbach, a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society "We're in the middle of real social change right now," she said...