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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, TAS is sponsoring a referendum of all Yale graduate students to assess support for both the grade strike and a proposed union...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: To Teach or to Strike: | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

CITYSTEP'S Where Go Our Feet is a lot like your little sister's dance recital. No matter what happens onstage, you've got to be proud of the performers. And like your sister's recital, you're hard pressed to assess the show critically...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Watching the Dances of the Little People | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...Questions I couldn't figure out, Part Two: This one is perhaps the strangest question in the entire 18-page booklet: "Please assess the contribution of each of the following to the development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...guilty of contempt of court by refusing to show financial records if summoned," Pierce said. "If you don't file, it makes it much harder for the IRS to get your money. It means more work for the IRS since they must file your return with approximated figures and assess your...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Group Provides Protest Advice | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

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