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Three other Leverett House residents were put on disciplinary probation for participating in the pranks. The Ad Board dropped the cases of the remaining two students involved, said Michael L. Goldenberg '88, one of the suspended students' roommates...
...Undergraduate Council should consider any issue brought to it by its constituents. Why arbitrarily limit the issues it can consider? The Dowling Committee structured the Undergraduate Council to allow flexibility. If an issue has no place in an existing committee, an ad-hoc committee can be appointed to examine it. Then, it is brought to the full council for a vote. If that issue is bizarre, useless, or irrelevant it will fail (or the constituents will vote their reps out of office for supporting...
ANTI-APARTHEID activists would have been hard-pressed to imagine a more damning reductio ad absurdum of Harvard's policies toward South Africa than the University's new South African Internship Program. The program is ill-conceived, poorly planned and, as it currently stands, will actually hurt Black South Africans--the ostensible beneficiaries of the new internships. It was conceived out of short-term political expediency and claims to benign results for malignant activities...
...Burgin could be persuasive, however, he could also be mercurial, a trait that the Examiner poked fun at in another TV ad. As an unsmiling Burgin enters the newsroom, staffers cower behind bookshelves and scatter in fear. "David's got a reputation as sort of a tough guy," narrates Hearst. "But I think that's blown way out of proportion." Still, Burgin was difficult. He disappeared from the office for long stretches, blew up suddenly at staffers, - and once, in a fit of pique, skipped a planned meeting with company brass in New York. Hearst "kept saying I was capricious...
...ad in a New Jersey newspaper asks, IS YOUR CHILD CAUGHT IN A FAILURE CHAIN? Another in California urges, GIVE YOUR KIDS AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. Both pitches are aimed at the same customers: parents with the cash and the desire to bring a lagging schoolchild up to speed or to put a bright youngster ahead of his classmates. In the past few years such appeals have been pulling thousands of pupils (including a smattering of adults) into private, for- profit learning chains, which are spreading across the country...