Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone who has padlocked a camp director in his cabin, stolen every piece of detachable hardware from the showers, hidden a head cook's Beetle in the middle of the archery range, run the reveille record up the flagpole . . . Meatballs [July 16] is summer camp. I'll sing camp songs with Bill Murray any time...
...Congress prepared to adjourn last week for a month's recess, all sense of urgency seemed to evaporate in the summer heat. Much to the disgust of the White House, the push to pass the President's energy bill ground to a halt...
Second, on the night of the dance, summer school residents of Stoughton Hall next to Phillips Brooks House yelled "faggots" and "queers" throughout the evening to people attending the dance. Fortunately, they chose no to take their aggression any further than this, and gay people can generally pass off such taunts as ignorance of fear...
Michael Shinagel, director of the Summer School, said yesterday that he told Vazquez to "put the case in writing and I would turn it over for reconsideration...I have not heard anything from Mr. Vazquez in writing subsequent to that phone call...
However, Vazquez gives a different account of his conversation with Shinagel. He said, "I submitted two written complaints. One to the ad hoc committee (in the Summer School to review refund cases) and one to the Administrative Board. When he told me to do that (submit a written complaint), I told him that I had in fact already submitted those letters. He then said, 'Well I stand by the decision of my colleagues...