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Forgive us, but whenever the monthly cry of 'reform' strikes the Undergraduate Council, we have to be a little bit skeptical. Past attempts to define and remedy the essential problems of the council all seem to meld in our minds into the same amorphous blob, long on talk and short on action. We sincerely hope that the new day trumpeted by the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) actually sees fruition. Until then, it has the awful burden of reform's history to overcome...
...stated goal of expanding the diversity of the council. We applaud the PUCC's advocacy of greater action, its rhetoric of making the council a center of student activism. But in its nominal attempt at real reform, it undermines one of its own goals and bites off a bit more than it can chew at this point in its young and foolish life...
This is a lot of power for an upstart contender of a glorified dance committee. And this is what we've heard again and again from attempts to reform the council: "Greater student power!" That line is getting a bit old, even if it's a bunch of enlightened campus liberals yelling...
...results of the Dartmouth Invitational are worth anything, however, that probably doesn't faze Harvard a bit...
...Lost World, which will show up in bookstores in dino-size portions this Wednesday, might seem like a bit of backtracking for Crichton--it's the first sequel he has ever written. Crichton saw it as a challenge: "The reality is, you can't be fresh. If you're really fresh, it's not a sequel." He anticipates a critical drubbing, and probably deserves one. The book (it's six years after Jurassic Park, we're on a Costa Rican island, and the earth trembles .) has a cutting-room-floor feeling to it: outtakes. No matter; the national release...