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...would ever be released. Charged with assault on a fellow inmate, he faced the added possibility of serving the next few years in isolation. Each day that he spent in prison was a protraction of his state of terminal vulnerability. "I go to bed each night, hoping, trying to avert the storm that is now coming on. I find each morning as I found this one, freighted with the possibilities of my own disaster." Chained to the flaps of an institutional Icarus, "I begin to weary...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Out of the Game and Into the Vanguard | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

...room for. Whether it was because of poor communication between the Houses and Epps's office, or because of unresponsiveness from Epps's office to the protests of House secretaries when unreasonable numbers of students were assigned to particular Houses, the fact remains that nothing substantial was done to avert an obvious crisis situation that was developing throughout the summer. No shuffling of upperclassmen, no reassignment of incoming sophomores was done during the summer months when it should have been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Floating Through The Housing Squeeze | 10/12/1971 | See Source »

...this point, it is not clear just how much will have to be trimmed from the budget and where. We have to look at a long list of areas where careful spending will add up to considerable savings on a yearly basis. In this way we can hopefully avert a situation as drastic as that at Columbia. By instituting cost consciousness throughout the administrative organization of the University--at the Computing Center, the Press, in central services and so forth--we can partially offset increases in operating expenses and higher wages. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is another matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview With President Bok Or (Gulp), How to Run Harvard | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...this point, it is not clear just how much will have to be trimmed from the budget and where. We have to look at a long list of areas where careful spending will add up to considerable savings on a yearly basis. In this way we can hopefully avert a situation as drastic as that at Columbia. By instituting cost consciousness throughout the administrative organization of the University--at the Computing Center, the Press, in central services and so forth--we can partially offset increases in operating expenses and higher wages. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is another matter...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Sitting on the Edge of a Precipice | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...died since March 1 in a "reign of terror unleashed by the Awami League," East Pakistan's strongest political party, with "the active assistance of Indian armed infiltrators." He added that his regime's attack on the East March 25 was merely a preemptive attempt to avert a planned rebellion. Observers who were in East Pakistan during the period called the paper a mixture of half-truths, juxtaposed events and outright lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Growing War Threat | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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