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Weaver and Lundskow are two of eleven students arrested under charges of disorderly conduct last April 24, when they attempted to build symbolic "shanties" in front of the school's student union. Lundskow and two other students were arrested for trying to stop university employees from dismantling the plywood structures...
HARVARD HAS LONG refused to build its undergraduates a student center, telling undergrads to make their own whoopie. With the introduction of Russian television into Collidge Hall, however, the University may have created the hottest fun spot on campus...
Reagan, however, gave no indication of significant U.S. concessions on his Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars." The Soviets claim that building such a space-based shield against nuclear missiles only forces them to build more offensive weapons to make sure they could penetrate U.S. defenses in the event...
...would be proud to own." Says E. John Rosenwald, an executive at Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them. He is betting that the distressed oil industry will eventually rebound. Tisch is self-deprecating about his financial ability. "I've been lucky," he shrugs...
Security is at the heart of another charge. Noting that the Department of Energy plans to help build demonstration food-irradiation plants in Oklahoma, Iowa, Hawaii, Florida, California and Washington, opponents complain that the resulting spread of radioactive material will increase the chances of mishaps during transport, use and disposal. Nor has the supervision of existing irradiation plants been reassuring. The NRC acknowledges that it may inspect a facility only once in three years. Radiation Technology's license to operate a New Jersey plant was recently suspended for two months after the NRC found that company officials tried to hide...