Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a fundamental lack of communication between minority students and the administration. The Foundation and its current activities serve as a case in point. In response to requests for a Third-World center, the University threw Black students a bone in the form of the Foundation. In what may have been interpreted as a spiteful move all of the Black student organizations last semester refused to bite. Although they have recently reconsidered, choosing to accept funding from the Foundation for lack of anything more palatable, the fact that the boycotts occurred at all indicates a tragic gap between what...
Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light. They repair to dorm rooms and Victorian houses in quiet neighborhoods to spend the day in owl-like slumber, skipping both meals and classes. As dusk descends, they will meander back to the computer rooms, returning to the fluorescent comfort of typed instruction and programmed response, ready to hack again...
...charm of being air bone may not be clear to those who scan the sky only for unidentified flying objects. Why fly? Por Russell, "it's an obsession--more addicting than any drag I know...
...next five years for work on the disease. "You know, I lost my wife Mildred to cancer in 1979," he says quietly. "Last month I spoke at a wake for Don Petit of my staff, who died of cancer in Florida. A woman on my staff is suffering from bone cancer and was told she'll probably never be able to walk again. Well, we've got to do more to try to stop this disease...
...lengthy journey begins with the agonies of death ("Volcanic lips give fire, wells bubble. Bone lies like rubble upon the wound"). Surviving this fiery purgation is the ka (diminished soul) of an Egyptian named Menenhetet II. After experiencing the mummification of his discarded body, this ghost meets the kindred spirit of his great-grandfather Menenhetet I. The old ghost agrees to guide his descendant out of the necropolis at Memphi, a task that begins with a lesson in the creation of the Egyptian deities. Toward the end of this recitation, the young shade's attention drifts into the eddy...