Word: swats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT)--a true grassroots organization, which plans to fund its activities on behalf of the suit with the profits of a "Girl Scout-style" cookie sale--really confounds me. The organization claims that female students who are not members of final clubs are denied the exclusive opportunity to "network" with members. Thus, the premise here is that female students are missing out on that traditional Harvardian experience--power-lunching with the rich and famous...
...SWAT claims that despite Harvard's nonrecognition of final clubs, there exists a "semi-official" connection between the University and the clubs. However, it is unclear to me what kind of connection that could possibly be. The clubs own the buildings and their own property. They are financially independent, and they even get their own heat...
...attitude is already changing," says SWAT member Chrystia A. Freeland '90, adding that people are now much more willing to take a stand on the issue than they were two months...
Hatfield says that groups such as the Catholic Students Assocation and the International Students Association have used the garden in the past. One organization that will be using the space is SWAT. SWAT plans to hold a fundraiser in the garden this spring and has received permission from the Dean of Students to use the space, says Freeland...
With good reason. Last week, police said, Farley, carrying a rifle, two shotguns and four handguns, blasted his way through a locked door at ESL. He fired furiously at employees, killing seven and injuring four others, before surrendering to a police SWAT team. Black was seriously wounded. The next day Family Court Commissioner Lois Kittle symbolically made the injunction . permanent, while explaining through tears, "Pieces of paper do not stop bullets...