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...Harvard men's hockey team noticed the change, it does every year. The magic minute comes shortly after first semester finals; one night the clock strikes 12, Coach Bill Cleary rips January off the calendar and the Crimson starts winning again...
...when the University scheduled freshman registration on Yom Kippur, 1980 when the University refused minority students a Third World Center, and last year when the Freshman Dean's Office denied minority organizations access to the Freshman Calendar, the Commencement date contradicted the University's self-espoused treatises on diversity. Although the Administration claims to embrace pluralistic, ideals, many of its actions put minority groups on the defensive...
...formal practice of confession goes back thousands of years in Judeo-Christian tradition. Jewish Scripture and liturgy include ancient prayers of confession of sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired...
...situation an isolated, once-in-a-lifetime coincidence. According to the Jewish calendar, the same conflict will come up again in the 1990s, so setting priorities now is essential. Several other schools faced in recent years by the same situation--including Yale, MIT and Columbia--have demonstrated a commitment to the values of smaller groups within the community by rescheduling their commencement dates...
...pattern of thoughtlessness, a more general problem that tradition-locked Harvard has had in responding to diverse groups as they merge with the community. The same stiff and narrow vision characterized College reaction to minority groups' campaign last year to list their events in the official freshman week calendar, or, earlier, to form a Third World Center; Harvard displays reluctance to bend from the immediate social values with which it is most familiar--an "integrated" class, a stable social setup, or, in this case, the "traditional" formula for scheduling of Commencement. In each case Harvard's reluctance to depart from...