Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targeted by a "Negro hit squad." Now we learn that one racist punk, Gregory H. Williams '88, has been exonerated by the Harvard administration, first by receiving a slap on the wrist probation, then by being allowed to play football. For the well-heeled bigots who run this bastion of race and class privilege, Black students are obviously less important than Crimson pigskin and this is nothing...
...future doesn't look too bleak, but Bloom says she'll always have to deal with "that radical concept"--being a female instrumentalist in the male bastion of jazz. She responds to what must be the umpteenth question on the subject first with mock agony ("I feel like a man trapped in a woman's body") but then goes on to discuss the obstacles she has faced with insight--and without self-pity...
...Harvard, the self-proclaimed bastion of freedom and intellectual cultivation, the percentage of undergraduates registered to vote in Cambridge is quite dismal. Although large numbers of students no doubt are registered in their home communities, the smallness of the percentage registered to vote here is surprising...
...certainly does not live up to the standards of an institution that considers itself a bastion of idealism. "People apply a different standard to Harvard's commercial real estate operations than they would to a commercial developer," says Gladys Gifford of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...