Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discriminated against by the final clubs? Apparently, Mr. Cooper holds some bizarre ideas about equity in representation and thought he could represent both sides in this struggle. In the council, Cooper voted against the resolution denouncing the clubs. He voted in favor of giving Lisa Schkolnick money for her suit, but introduced an amendment to give equal funding to the Fly Club if they needed...
...statesmen and philosophers and divines." In striving to be fair to both sides, Cooper, in effect, supported the final clubs. The 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...
...main contention of her suit is that the clubs continue to be an integral part of undergraduate life at Harvard, and of this, sadly, there is no denying. Furthermore, her complaint contends that the clubs are not merely social preserves, they are part of a networking system which enables a chosen few to forge connections in the business community which will serve them well upon graduation...
...packed for the occasion with 8,000 worshipers, 1,000 of them standees, while followers nationwide watched the weekly telecast. This day there was to be none of Swaggart's trademark piano riffing or gospel singing, none of his jig stepping, strutting or shouting. Clad in a severe suit, the TV evangelist waited quietly, then began to speak...
...many images, so many of them conflicting. America's gold-medal speed skater, Bonnie Blair, 23, was the picture of invulnerability or delicacy, depending on whether she was all packed up in her peppermint suit, streaming across the ice, or her hair was falling down afterward in curls. (It's the color of maple syrup in the morning.) "I'm just a person who likes to chase someone," she said in a voice that sounded too small for a champion of the world, 5 ft. 5 in. tall...