Word: assert
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...studying, early-morning jobs, odd-houred athletic workouts and rehearsals characterize student life at Harvard/Radcliffe. For a woman to limit her participation because of the threat of rape or assault is to restrict her education. This is why the University must become involved. We will march on Saturday to assert each student's right to equal access to education and the university's responsibility to guarantee that right...
...undermining of self, of a woman's sense of her right to occupy space and walk freely in the world...The capacity to think independently, to take intellectual risks, to assert ourselves menatlly, is inseparable from our physical way of being in the world, our feelings of physical integrity...
...this Saturday's H/R Take Back the Night march, students have a chance to dramatically present their objections to campus life and to demand for women the same autonomy that men already have. The march is designed to empower women, to encourage them to assert themselves. Women can and should provide emotional, intellectual, and artistic inspiration for other women. This can happen during the march and hopefully can continue for a long time afterwards...
Although Heymann sees mainly the negative influences of the Lowell family on each of these poets, and their negative influence on each other, American Aristocracy does succeed as a comparative work. Heymann shows that power can hardly cushion a poet attempting to assert the validity of his or her expression, that money cannot buy literary respect, and that the ability to pen lines that seize readers has little to do with heredity. Rhyme and gene conditions do not necessarily mix. This message of the Lowell family leaps out of American Aristocracy. Again and again Heymann shows that distinguished writing flows...
...review of College governance was conducted in 1969 by a committee chaired by the late Merle Fainsod, the Pforzheimer University Professor who, ironically, was an expert on Soviet government. The Fainsod Committee suggested the establishment of several independent student-Faculty committees that left students without a central body to assert their interests...