Word: core
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bunch of nuts," men mumbled from the street corners. A few began snapping their fingers and grinning broadly at the chants. One strolled into the throng. "Whatchu doin out here, baby?" he leered at one woman. As the neighborhood exposed its hard core, the marchers--many of whom had never been to Times Square before--drew closer together...
From its storefront office on 9th Avenue in New York, the organization tries to educate people about the hard-core pornographic culture many of them, especially women, never see: how its violent and misleading images of women filter down into popular culture like record and fashion advertising; how these images promote stereotypes about female sexuality; and how pornography encourages male violence toward women. WAP members quote studies which claim that more than half of all child rapes are committed by men who say they are "trying out" techniques they saw in hard-core magazines and books...
Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...
...volunteer for CUE what the commitment entails. Perhaps such a warning would discourage the Cromptons who have better things to do from joining the committee. Faculty members should also understand the issues CUE considers. McClave, for instance, says she did not speak up at the CUE discussions on the Core two years ago because she was "not well-acquainted with the Core legislation." This is incredible considering that CUE discussed nothing but the Core that year...
Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and the History of Science and member of the Core subcommittee on Science, said yesterday he believed most science concentrators probably have taken enough science courses which overlap the courses in the Science B category to exempt them from that Core requirement...