Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that a more effective policy would be for the administration to remain deliberately lenient in the enforcement of guidelines regarding the use of alcohol by underage students.... Students [would] be more likely to remain on campus when they drink,... [and] this policy may help to remove the stigma that makes alcohol so tempting and dangerous...
Diversity aside, however, I hope that the new system, after enough years, will take away the stigma attached to the Quad. It's actually a beautiful place, for all you first-years who were placed there. Hilles Library and the QRAC are steps away from all the Quad houses; the facilities are excellent; and you can laugh at all your River friends who have walk-throughs while you luxuriate in spacious singles. Sure, it's far away, but it's nice to actually go home at the end of the day and feel like you're home; the neighborhood north...
...action prevents its defenders from speaking frankly about what they have done, about what they had to do, to bring diversity. They should not think their silence goes unnoticed by students, by the general public, or by blacks. Their refusal to discuss or even identify the central difficulty is stigma enough by itself...
...Landing in the bottom third of the class is something to which stigma perhaps rightly attaches," Jancu wrote in the student memo...
...forces that perpetuate sexual inequality are far more powerful than those that maintain racial inequality," Carolus said. "Everyone knows it is not okay to stand up and say, 'I am a racist.' There is not the same stigma against sexism...