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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was not available for comment yesterday. A spokesperson in his office said that it was too soon to say whether any disciplinary or legal action would be taken against the group or any of its members...
...McBride, senior vice president of Common Cause, the self-proclaimed public interest organization, hailed the action as "moving toward a time when we will have government fully compensated by the public, and not by special interest influence money...
Bush, who has been seeking for months to increase salaries for his top aides and for federal judges, cleared the way for House action this week. By giving his blessing to the package, he made it more difficult for Democrats or Republicans to use pay as a partisan issue...
...suffer through a tough opening weekend. R.P.I. sacked two-time defending ECAC champ St. Lawrence, 11-2, and Cornell lost to both Princeton and Army (3-1 overall, 1-1 ECAC). Brown, which hadn't won since last season's first game, tied twice. After the first weekend of action, the league appears to be much more balanced...
...events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his action, and about two-thirds of the student body signed a petition calling for the school to do more to encourage its students to seek careers providing legal aid to the needy...