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...Daughter Laureen, 21. At New York City's Lehman College, Elyse Sanchez's brood of four proudly stood by while the 35-year-old welfare mother got her B.A. Elizabeth McCulla, 21, became the eighth in her family to graduate from William and Mary (Mom's and Dad's alma mater). Jesse Jackson stumped up a storm as speaker at his alma mater, North Carolina A. & T., then beamed as Sons Jesse Jr. and Jonathan received their sheepskins. And at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., the day's loudest cheer went up for Dan Butler, 70. Butler had quit Benedictine...
...second-seeded varsity boat will be racing against fourth-seed Rutgers (Lightweight Coach Charles Butt's alma mater), sixth-seed Cornell, Penn, and Columbia in its preliminary race. Princeton, which beat Harvard by three-and-a-half seconds, is seeded first, with Yale third and Navy fifth...
...Finished Man" depicts an old schoolboy returning in triumph to his alma mater as an honored alumnus, remembering long-gone grievances and basking...
WITH Commencement approaching, the spring of 1988 has once again introduced a senior class to the annual dispute created over contributions to its alma mater. As in past years, the Endowment for Divestiture, founded in 1983, has publicly fashioned itself as the proper alternative to the Senior Gift for Undergraduate Education. Why? E4D claims that the two funds are mutually exclusive, on account of what they perceive to be the political nature of the Class Gift...
...comprising more than 100 distinct nationalities and ethnic groups living in 15 republics. Russia's rulers have been dealing with restive nationalities since the days of the Czars, but rarely has the problem assumed such urgency. At least two people died 15 months ago, when riots broke out in Alma-Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, to protest the naming of a Russian to head the local Communist Party. A band of Crimean Tatars demonstrated in Red Square last July, seeking the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea; a smaller group briefly pressed the same demand near Moscow...