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Rhonda Wittels ’79—who serves as president of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, which was founded in 1984??said that she felt welcome at the College. But Wittels qualified this sentiment...
Mark E. Richard—a tenured faculty member at Tufts University since 1984??has been named a professor of philosophy, effective July...
Alternative futures call for alternative language. “1984?? had Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent novel and the second in a series of three, Margaret Atwood similarly invents a dictionary for her post-apocalyptic world. But her words are amusing than ominous—the lexicon for a dystopian vision at once entertaining and insubstantial. Atwood’s way with words should come...
...loving” bunch of ex-varsity athletes, many hailing from high school football and soccer careers, not only dominated their Northeastern, Eastern, and Ivy competition, but also clobbered their national competition in the National Rugby Championship game against the University of Colorado in the spring of 1984??an accomplishment that has never been repeated.“The whole run to the national championships not only caught the university by surprise, it caught us by surprise...All of a sudden, we didn’t have a budget,” said George L. Askew...
...Reunion Committee for 1984??s fifth reunion felt that there was enough of a need and desire for such a service and that the deceased class members should not have to wait until the twenty-fifth reunion to be honored. The class was also the first to extend its reunion to Sunday brunch, instead of having the last reunion activity on Saturday night. Many of these have subsequently become traditions, and other classes have since followed suit, making the Class of 1984 trendsetters in the reunion-planning arena...