Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite recent turmoil, including a campus-wide forum on intolerance and a series of protests and demonstration, Williams believes that activism is still not accepted in Hanover. "I don't think that Dartmouth knows what radicalism is, and I don't think they're ready to understand," he says...
This time students formed an alliance decrving not only South African apartheid, but racism and intolerance on the Hanover campus. Calling themselves the Dartmouth Alliance Against Racial Oppression, the protesters forced the cancellation of classes the following day. In place of classes, college-wide forums were held to discuss racism, violence, and disresepct for diversity...
January 24: Classes are cancelled. Two days of college-wide forums are held to increase awareness of intolerance on campus...
These cautionary tales confront wide-eyed readers of the new book Girls, Be Vigilant!, an official publication of the Chinese government. The usually puritanical press is blossoming with articles on sex, one sign that traditional policies of sexual repression are undergoing attack. The sex-crime rate has soared, particularly cases of rape, which is sometimes defined to include simple seduction. Divorce is also up, and the New China News Agency reports that "disharmonious sexual life arising from a lack of sexual knowledge" is now placing great strain on many families...
...Voyager swung behind Uranus, it bounced radio waves off the rings and discovered that they are quite different from those of Saturn, which contain an abundance of fine particles. The Uranian rings are made largely of dark "boulders," most of them more than a yard wide, that circle the planet once every eight hours. Many scientists believe they may be the remnants of a large moon that shattered in an ancient cataclysm...