Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major oil companies, the Lambda Legal Defense Fund effort to legalize gay marriages, and the living wage campaign for Harvard employees. We have also dealt effectively with on campus political issues such as the current policy on rape and sexual assault, and this week, we hope to continue that trend when the council navigates its way through a contentious debate on ROTC's status on campus...
...response to comments about the current trend of activism on campus concerning sweatshop labor and a living wage, Sleeper warned against opinions not founded on firm beliefs-expressed for sake of expression...
...tempting to interpret the trend towards larger blocking groups as indicative of an increasingly fragmented and atomized House community. In this light, the Staff encourages future first-years to limit blocking groups to only their "close friends and potential roommates...
Additional data presented at the Committee on House Life meeting also showed an increasing trend in the size of blocking groups, particularly those with the maximum number of 16. House masters and College administrators have long worried about this upward trend, but these figures finally confirm those concerns. In particular, officials worry that the trend will stymie the College's attempts to create gender balance in the Houses-a goal the Crimson supports...
...problem with blocking groups is not their upward trend in size or their unbalanced gender composition. Instead, it is the nebulous conception of a blocking group in itself. Ideally and for the most part, a blocking group should be a group of close friends and potential roommates. Rarely should it be an entire social circle. But the hazy purpose of blocking groups is again not reason to restrict students' ability to choose with whom to live throughout their college years. Rather, it is reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups...