Word: belle
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...editorial, "Clarke Should Retract Statements" (Nov. 4, 1994), we were left wondering whose free speech? Whites'? Or just whites who contemplate notions of Black inferiority? Unfortunately, The Crimson's staff failed to heed its own words in its treatment of BSA President Kristen Clarke '97, whose challenge of The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Professor Richard Herrnstein ("Blacks Seek an End to Abuse," opinion, Oct. 28, 1994) elicited the staff's condemnation and the kinds of intimidation The Crimson has warned against earlier: Either Clarke would retract her words and issue a public apology...
...test was really the type that you had to concentrate really hard on," said Terrell P. McSweeney '97. "And not only was the dissonant bell bad enough, what was worse was that people kept on interrupting our exam, telling us people were evacuating the building. We stayed because no one got up, and also because there was only five minutes left in the class...
...really hard test and the bell just became a distraction," she said. "What was even worse was that one of the proctors ran up to the back and held the bell in his hands to try and muffle the sound....Professor Zaslavsky came in to the room and dismissed us all, saying he would take the alarm 'into account...
Chemistry 17 was evacuated, but only "after we found it was a fire alarm," said graduate student Alan Annis, the course's head teaching fellow. "We couldn't tell at first what the ringing in the hallway was. We thought it was someone ringing some dinky bell...
...bell was ringing but no one moved. Several people even came in to tell us about the alarm," said chemistry student Victor Chiappa '98. "I can definitely see how the alarm could have affected people's performance on the test...