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...Sergeant isn't throwing up her hands, however. Attendances for the town's annual Carols by Candlelight regularly exceed 100, she says, and one year peaked at 206. The church organizes dinners, bonfires and card nights, and many of the regulars do volunteer work. "Community outreach, we call it," says Sergeant. "When we hear of someone in trouble, perhaps needing wood, we rally round and help them. Our numbers may be small in church, but our Christian faith continues through the week...
...between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown even more timid; last week it refused to endorse the candlelight march against aid to El Salvador—as positive a student effort as this University has seen in three years—for fear of taking what one member called a “political stand.” It is with these failings of the Student Assembly in mind...
...collapsing infrastructure are visible everywhere, from half-paved roads to unfinished public housing. Gasoline costs over $5 a gallon, and the parts of the capital buzz to the sounds of generators day and night in the absence of electricity. Even last week's parliamentary investiture was held in candlelight...
...then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged by “the aggressive fetus”—two sides of the same coin.At the somber candlelight vigil meant to be an occasion for victims to share their personal stories of rape, the last to speak was then-Assistant Professor of English Ann Pellegrini. She digressed, declaring her disappointment at how few contraceptive commercials were broadcast on television and lamenting that “matriarchy” provoked red squiggly...
Columbia students rallied in opposition to hate crimes and in support of its victims by carrying out a candlelight vigil, students at the college told The Crimson last December...