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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other just give up and study for midterms or wash their socks. "Icky Boys Abound," reads the Holworthy laundry room door. Another put it more directly, "I hope you didn't come to Harvard to find love...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: MAKING YOUR MARK ON HARVARD | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

...wants to work in a fire house where there are gays," Jackson said, adding that when his co-workers say "Kill gays" in front of him their harassment goes unpunished Jackson said he is often forced to wash dishes in the Fire Department instead of being sent of fight fires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Police Face Allegations of Discrimination | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

Peter Angst, North House. For most wash-ups, life is a pathetic waste of time heaped upon a worthless individual. Not for Peter Angst, however, who believes that "true excellence can be sought even in failure." Last semester Angst performed what fans have called his greatest feat: staying up all night to write a two-page paper that was so late it could not possibly get credit anyway, than deciding the paper wasn't good enough at 5 a.m., throwing it out, and then sleeping through the hourly exams he had that day--all seven of them...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Rutger Awards | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder, a dog was schooled to pick up signals of an impending seizure and alert the girl and her parents. "The dog knows before the girl does that she is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Furry And Feathery Therapists | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...into that class," said Leon, who is also at Wash. U. "Only the professor took attendance at every class. I wrote an A paper and got a B-plus on the final, but he gave me a D for the course because I missed one lecture...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Down and Out in Cambridge | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

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