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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus has seen a shift from house life to increased participation in student groups--yet why are student groups still operating on incredibly small budgets in basement offices? We constantly hear about the large number of student groups on campus, yet very little has been mentioned about more student group funding or the lack of space. We plan to seek more funding for student groups and continue the dialogue that has already begun about the erection of a student center...

Author: By Noah Z. Seton, | Title: Embracing What Matters Most | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson could not have picked a better opponent to rebound against. The Skating Dutchmen currently reside in the ECAC basement and have just one league win, a 5-4 victory over RPI way back...

Author: By Michael R. Voloninno, | Title: M. Hockey Hopes For Hot Streak | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...family caught on top of a rampaging circus elephant? A man urinating in the office coffee pot? Twentysomethings shooting milk out of their tear ducts for distance? The nets can probably squeeze any of that in the slot between DiResta and Malcolm & Eddie. Cable used to be the frat basement of television, full of "Skinemax" and foul-mouthed comics, but now you turn to the double digits for CNN, Bravo or American Movie Classics. The cheap thrills are invading network television, under headings like When Good Pets Go Bad, World's Scariest Police Chases and, thanks to a rare kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...typical Tuesday afternoon in early January for 11-year-old Molly Benedict, a sixth-grader at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco. When she gets home from school at 3:30, she heads straight for the basement of her family's two-story house, flips on her computer and bangs out a one-page book report on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. After half an hour of work, Molly takes the paper upstairs and gives it to her mother Libby for proofreading. As Molly nibbles a snack of a bagel and orange-spice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...occasionally get too involved. Last fall a homework assignment for fifth-graders at the public Horace Mann School was to build a mini-space station that accounted for food, water, waste treatment, radiation shielding and zero gravity. Rasley's son Taylor, 10, spent countless maddening hours toiling at a basement countertop surrounded by cut-open soda bottles. "He just kept sitting there saying, 'I don't know what to do,'" Rasley says. "When the frustration level gets that high, you say, 'O.K., I'm going to help,' because the situation has become so hurtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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