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...less controversial side, the spring grants package, which awarded over $29,000 to various student groups, passed unanimously. The only debate surrounded an appeal by George T. Hill '00, director of Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program (BYRE) for an $400 increase of his group's grant...
According to Hill, who is also a Crimson editor, BYRE employs 11 senior counselors each summer, eight of which are Harvard undergraduates. But Bradley L. Davis'00 pointed out that the salaries for seven ofthose students are subsidized by other sources...
...felt the money could be used for a groupthat has a larger effect on campus rather than asa stipend for one undergrad," Davis said. Thecouncil voted to increase BYRE's grant by $100 andquickly approved the rest of the package. In othercouncil business, members of the Campus LifeCommittee (CLC) asked representatives to helppublicize this weekend's Springfest...
...autobiography, Born in Tibet, Trungpa went on to say he was delivered in a cattle byre in February 1939, and that on that day a rainbow was seen and a water pail was found unaccountably full of milk. When he died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last April 4, leaving eleven published books, five sons and a widow, Trungpa, who was called Rinpoche (a Tibetan honorific meaning precious one) by thousands of his Buddhist students, a remarkable odyssey came to a close -- at least in this life. The journey actually began months before Rinpoche's birth, when a holy man died...
...even think about sex after 1662. What nonsense! The fact is that my great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat in the bog and with the kelp on the strand; and sometimes at night he would rouse himself on his pallet with a dreadful groan, exclaiming, "Oh, I am thinking about sex again!" This was so painful to his mother and father and three living grandparents, who slept...