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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, Watson said, "We have to watch the mores of our students. I do not want to see Harvard play a leading role in relaxing the moral code of college youth. The College must follow the customs of the time and the community. We cannot have rules more liberal than a standard generally accepted by the American public...
...College attacked the sexuality of youth as psychiatrically and morally harmful. Officials cried that "trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the College rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," and they said that sexual intercourse, before college graduation, could be mentally harmful...
...modernization program. To save money and to lessen tensions with the Soviet Union, the P.L.A. was trimmed from a peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult to produce their annual quota of recruits. As a result, some | communities have begun to impose fines on youths who refuse to enlist. "Recruitment is even harder than family...
Many people fear gang rapes or being the random target of a sociopath. In fact, say many experts, the offending youth most often acts alone, is a respectable member of the community and knows the victim. So-called date rape is one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes...
...Harvard of our grandparents' generation was a Harvard that most of them could not have attended. People who were barred from attending this college--because of income, ethnicity or geography--in their youth should not be asked to fund...