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...change?"--Black Students Association President Alan C. Shaw '85 community must look inward to overcome its divisions. "Is it wise to continue to blame the University for our incohesiveness or should we change?" he asks. According to Shaw, the BSA lost support in recent years because it did not adapt its policies to the new, more moderate group of Blacks on campus. These students are not apolitical, he argues, but rather would prefer to work within the mainstream where possible...
...intense planning, which involved a good deal of student politicking. Princeton has decided to address a long-standing disorganization in its housing system. This year marks the start of a two-year transition period when new dorms will be built, older ones renovated, and all students forced to adapt to a complicated new system for allocating rooms...
...succeed at selling customized products, firms need skilled work forces able to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs. Instead of sharpening workers' skills, Reich says, many big companies have laid off employees in the U.S. and set up assembly lines overseas. Rather than push hard for retraining, most blue-collar unions have clung to rigid job classifications and inefficient work rules...
...Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass are always in bloom...
...almost continual creative activity of an intellect who towered so far above his society, and yet continually communicated with it and seemed to adapt to it, but who lived in it as a stranger, a condition neither he nor his circle could encompass; who grew ever more deeply estranged, never suspecting it himself until the end of his life, and making light of it until the very end--our imagination cannot accommodate such a phenomenon...