Word: attempted
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...hall and several other token improvements in the Quad environment, such as the opening of the Currier House art and woodworking facilities to use by all the Quad's residents, are only weak palliatives designed to sell the Fox plan to Quad students. It became clear that no genuine attempt to equalize the Quad was in store when administrators disclosed last week that efforts to raise funds for a major athletics complex on Observatory Hill near the Quad had not even begun. Rosovsky also made no mention of major renovations South House needs, nor of a proposal to expand shuttle...
...This attempt to remedy the Canaday problem has its advantages. Very few of the 190 upperclassmen living in what has become a dumping ground for overcrowded River Houses feel they are part of House social life, a social life based as much on proximity and convenience as it is on planned activities. River House masters have learned they must find "volunteers" for their Canaday entries in much the same way the Army finds "volunteers" for special missions...
This brief review is merely an attempt to correct some misconceptions, not an indictment. You are not responsible for the past, but the future surely belongs to all of us. Hatreds and fears are destructive self-deceptions, and they exact a human cost...
...quite concerned about the issues raised in recent weeks by the HRBSA. We regret that students have found some material in the magazine to be "racially offensive." We wish to express our concern that specific articles were received in this fashion. The Lampoon is a humor magazine; we attempt to amuse our readers by ridiculing stereotypes rather than merely by repeating or perpetuating them...
...minor-league jocks laboring in a sport that has never been noted for attracting gentlemen?professional hockey. The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts, and just as effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy...