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Unlike 2001-2002, the Crimson sailed through the regular season, posting a final record of 22-10-2. But the specter of falling short in big games—temporarily banished by clutch wins over Clarkson and Cornell, and the near victory against Maine—returned in full. Amongst the team’s 22 wins, the names of Cornell, BU, Maine and BC were conspicuous in their absence...
...change to the Ad Board policy requiring “independent corroborating evidence” to bring a sexual assault charge forward unleashed yet another storm of community outrage and CASV rallied once again outside University Hall. Only then, with the specter of negative publicity looming large, was Harvard willing to set up a committee to look into the issue...
...specter of Vietnam arose in a number of audience members’ comments, but criticism on that count was muted as well...
...widespread political interest. Professionally, women of color have struggled to surmount impediments to tenure and upward mobility, faced difficulties in creating minority women-owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures and confronted the problem of being historically cut off from the social networks that enable career expansion and promotion. The specter of sexual assault and rape within the minority community and lack of knowledge about, and treatment of, critical health concerns are examples of the insidious effects of this pervasive silence surrounding intersectionality...
Meanwhile, at other schools, there is still the specter of conservatism. The specter looms, not because students of this generation are more selfish, but because they are unwilling to support a moral hierarchy that devalues their own blameless aspirations...