Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressive list of endorsements. First civil rights leader Coretta Scott King penned a personal letter to support staff backing HUCTW's parent union. Then, two weeks later, Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D.-Mass.), wrote his own letter supporting the union and criticizing the University's anti-union status. Frank--who first coined the phrase "it's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union"--has pledged to speak on campus in favor of the union...
...failed attempt of Mr. Cooper's `evenhandedness' suggests why the council must take a stand on important campus issues. The council cannot support both sides of a discrimination suit any more than the United States can support both sides in a war. Supporting both sides equally enforces the status...
...takes action to stop them. If Cooper and the council are truly interested in equality, they will side with the women who are discriminated against by the clubs. If they refuse to take a stand, or try to represent both sides equally, the council ends up siding with the status quo. And since final club sexism is the status quo, refusal to fight it, in effect, supports...
...that doesn't begin to include the large number of women who regularly attend their social functions, nor the large number of men who accept their punching invitations and make their best effort to become a member. The University has made its formal rebuke of the clubs, denying them status as official student organizations in 1984; what has been lacking is an equally strong severing of ties with the clubs by us, the student body...
...1950s, Dudley finally gained a house master, and a decade later, it was given full house status and a physical plant based in Lehman Hall. The 1960s also witnessed another shift in house demographics--at this time, waves of boarding school graduates decided to leave structured living environments and live off campus...