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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that while the Hare proportional voting system used in the election "helps" minority groups and organized blocs, "those elected must have a broad base of support throughout the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jacobson, Johnson Elected First Marshals of College | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...this term, the department has begun a broad investigation of a serious, if bloodless, problem: the structure of its undergraduate curriculum...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Reviewing the Situation | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...complainants during her term as patient-advocate were women, many of them with gynecologic concerns. But she notes that "there has definitely been a rise in debate" on such issue in recent years, simply because of increasing national concern with obstetric issues. BWH and UHS doctors say that the broad movement among women's for "natural" childbirth and for more patient participation in the delivery process, has sparked a large proportion of the complaints against UHS. Because the University service has only two gynecologists available to women on the Harvard health plan, the matter of patient choice is also...

Author: By Amy E. Schwertz, | Title: Diagnosing UHS | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

BOOM! Seagulls dive over a beach and land neatly on paper. For Renaissance Man Donald Everett Axinn squats against a dune scribbling--islands, berries, turtles, plural nouns. He glues the words together with broad images like love, wind, or sea, making poems from them...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Cloudy Verse | 10/13/1982 | See Source »

...makes a good stab, though. Like a student who hasn't done the week's reading but tries to answer a question in section, Axinn grabs onto broad, oft-used poetic ideas--like the wind, or the poet--and tries to surround the images and vignettes in a cloud of meaning. The result is little more than a patch of ground...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Cloudy Verse | 10/13/1982 | See Source »

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