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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in a fitness-conscious age, people need incentive to exercise, so the organizers of the freshman intramural program are planning to award the first Yard Trophy to Massachusetts Hall, last year's overall intramural winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Dorms to Complete For New Yard Trophy | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...there is some method in this benign musical madness, that should come as no surprise from a singer who had written five plays by the age of 15. Born in New York City, where his father Robert helped break the color bar at the Metropolitan Opera by singing a major role in Aida in 1955, McFerrin grew up mainly in Los Angeles "in what they now call a 'dysfunctional family,' " he says. "I didn't get what I needed from my parents. They were busy dealing with their own pain." McFerrin started studying music theory at six and learned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...transmute information into knowledge, reflecting the full range of the joy and agony and struggle and triumph of life itself. it is still 1988, but i think we are in fact well on our way to a magazine for the 1990s, a vital print companion to the electronic age. we invite you along into an exciting future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Managing Editor: Oct. 17, 1988 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...Bolster education, with special emphasis on science and engineering. Everyone agrees that U.S. industry will have an increasingly tough time putting out quality products in a high-tech age if workers are poorly educated, or even illiterate. The Government should provide loans to help school systems revamp their facilities, and federal educational programs like Head Start should be expanded to include all disadvantaged children. Washington should give special grants to universities to subsidize increased salaries for science and engineering professors and scholarships to attract students into those fields. Moreover, the Government needs to launch a ten- year program to refurbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Issues Trade: Getting Back into the Game | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Another Mormon student, Benjamin R. Kahrl '89, is currently deciding whether a mission is the correct choice for him. Kahrl converted to the Mormon Church after his freshman year at the age of 19, and converts cannot go on a mission for at least a year after their conversion...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: World Travelers With a Purpose | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

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