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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council is a proper forum for discussion of controversial campus issues, such as final clubs or unionization. In previous elections, at least one candidate for chairman called for the council to devote itself primarily to student services, rather than controversial questions such as divestment. And three years ago an attempt to oust a sitting chairman for not addressing divestment failed...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: All Agree--It's Too Close to Call | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Even the element of danger present in visiting the Zone is a disappointment. A few dangerous-looking types lurk in corners. Several drunks stagger out of bars and clumsily attempt to hurl punches at each other. Open-eyed pimps stand on the corner watching their prostitues...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Down and Out in the Zone | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...Hien-Vong, a Vietnamese grocery store, aretypical of the places that are changing the CombatZone's character. Now, a Store 24, servingSuper-Chugs and Ben and Jerry's ice cream, liesacross the street from the Naked I strip club.Above the Store 24, the China Trade Center is partof an attempt by the Asian community to reclaimthe Zone, observers...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Last year, Columbia had led late in two games--against Dartmouth and Brown--but had lost both times. Only when Princeton's 47-yd. field goal attempt fell short as time expired did the celebration start...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Forty-Four Games Later, a Victory | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...attempt to transcend the image of Reebok as just an exercise shoe. In quoting Emerson, the ads exploit a key aspect of American society. We thrive on thinking of ourselves as original, as rebels. What the Reebok ads deftly obscure is the fact that buying Reeboks is not an act of individualism but an act of conformity. The U.B.U. ads conflate being a good shopper with self-reliance. They speak to Yuppies...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stomping on Individualism | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

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