Word: unioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courses, even before the Union was shut down for remodeling, the administration had attacked the Major's ideal of community. The Major, Who in 1901 donated the funds to build and furnish the Union, sought to construct a building where all the undergraduates, many of whom could not afford "Gold Coast" housing, could spend their days. He wanted them to have a club of their own, a non-exclusive haven designed for all students, rich and poor. In the early 1930s, the selective house system was created, and the Union was relegated to serve as the first-year dinning hall...
Administrators would desperately love us to believe, and believe themselves, that the house system responds to this lack of community space for undergraduates. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says the system of "13 separate dining halls, JCRs, etc., is far more costly [than a single, central union is] and leads to a much greater sense of community. Harvard does have interhouse dining and groups do meet in the houses...
...deserve a real community space, the kind the Major tried to permanently give us in 1901. In turning the Union into office space for professors, the administration has willfully perverted the Major's plan. Ironically, the administration has stolen his building to give the rich Faculty the gift he intended for poor undergraduates...
...inch to avoid becoming the second President in history to resign in disgrace, as opposed to one of several tarnished by sexual scandals that future historians might just decide to ignore. He will try to change the subject, with lots of purposeful activity, outlined in the State of the Union, a new balanced budget, a response to Saddam Hussein. Let people get used to some further degradation of the public discourse; spread the word, quietly, that Lewinsky was a flighty, gossip-mongering groupie. Above all, trust that if the affair ever wound up being tried before the Senate, that...
...legal ones. Adviser Sid Blumenthal created a gigantic diagram inside his office outlining with circles and arrows the byzantine Republican conspiracy surrounding the tapes. A fierce argument raged over whether the First Couple, singly or together, should sit down for some big, cathartic confessional on the state of their union before Tuesday's State of the Union. But that idea was rejected, and by Saturday Hillary was fighting on several fronts at once...