Word: treating
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Most people treat the term "freshman" as gender-neutral. One does not say "freshwoman." But it is difficult for female first-years, many of them struggling to establish their identifies as woman and as Harvard student, to hear the term "freshman" day after day during their first year at Harvard. At a university where "old boys" is used as an adjective for everything from locker rooms to architecture, changing the term is the least Harvard could do to make its female students feel more comfortable...
...Lewis should go even further. He should press President Neil L. Rudenstine to organize a commission inquiring into the status of women at Harvard. The last such report was done in 1971, when our mothers confronted the first wave of the modern women's movement. Then, maybe, we can treat "serious" issues. Then, maybe, such...
Before the speeches began, the crowd gathered in the courtyard in front of the Old City Hall, two blocks away from the Park Street T stop, chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, union busting's got to go!" and carrying signs reading, "Treat Yale workers right" and "Hey Yale, educate by example...
...absolute laissez faire. But the current policy is hypocritical with respect to the legal use of other potential fire starters in the dorm rooms. The College is wrong to dictate the terms on which Jewish students may light their menorahs. It's time for the College to treat us as adults. Lewis should reverse...
...literature and government at Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect, to put it sweetly, Russell balks at personal revelation. His own folks? "They're colorful," is as far as he will...