Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 20 concerned Dartmouth students, most of whom are heterosexual, this year formed a group called Responsible AIDS Information at Dartmouth (RAID), which is attempting to teach students about AIDS. Among the planned activities are "road shows" with skits about AIDS that will travel to all the campus dorms, says senior James R. Bramson, RAID's co-founder...
...extent that business schools are sponsored by universities, they inevtiably make an institution whose aim is to teach the liberal arts seem somewhat anachronistic. Why is a classroom sacred? Why should it be something other than just a place to learn the tools for a future career? For reasons which are not easy to define, it is good to believe that a classroom must be kept uncontaminated by careerism. And thus it is nice to hear Dean Burton waxing metaphysical on the sanctity of learning, even as he heads a school whose purpose is to train businessmen...
...Mantegna, who was the star salesman in Mamet's sharp, funny play about the hustling of dubious Florida property. This group, however, lives even further out on society's margin. They are peddling greedy dreams unbacked even by swampland. And obviously there is a thing or two they can teach Margaret about practical psychology...
...people to avoid the disease. Bennett's 28-page pamphlet, cleared by the White House, is a model of moralizing and seems mainly to be meant as a challenge to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, an advocate of bluntly practical counsel. Bennett's booklet suggests that schools and parents "teach restraint as a virtue," downplays the use of condoms in sex and does not even mention the importance of clean needles if injecting drugs. Critics condemned Bennett's emphasis on abstinence, noting that by 17, almost half of all boys and nearly a third of girls have had intercourse. Said...
...think it very much complements the existing arts curriculum at Harvard," Zielinski said. "This type of direct, hands-on experience with an artist is unlike anything we could teach them otherwise...