Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the final clubs, Black fraternities and sororities were established initially as societies for co-ed socializing and community service. All of the Black groups are some of the nation's biggest backers of higher education for Black Americans and sponsors of scholarships. Many are tied to local communities through involvement in financial and social support groups...
...longer any serious disagreement. Michael Dukakis says so, and so do Jesse Jackson and, mutedly, George Bush. In Congress, legislation is being pushed not only by liberal Democrats but also by Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who normally cannot be found within miles of any proposal to increase social spending. Most surprising, the Reagan Administration, after seven years of virtually ignoring the problem, is now pulling itself together to develop some sort of pro-child-care position...
...make athletes comfortable, the trainers maintain a relaxed atmosphere in the training room. "Emo kept a friendly relationship with all the players," says football player Tony M. Consigli '89. When students talk about their social lives, Emerson joins in, Consigli says. "They start talking about the night before, and he rags on kids for it. I wait for the day when we find out something about...
Although the training room is primarily a place for medical attention, some athletes say they go there for other reasons. "It's the social center of the team," says women's soccer player Tenley E. Stephenson '91. "In the fall, it's a total pick-up scene...
Historically, retreats into the occult and the mystic have often been correlated with times of social stress, such as during the height of the Dark Ages, and I fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps...