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...undefended Stevens workers suffer terrible working conditions, chronically low wages and starvation-level pension payments. Thousands are slowly dying of the disease byssinosis, or brown lung, caused by cotton-dust levels three times higher than standards set by the federal government. Stevens employees are paid at rates 31 per cent below the national average for factory workers. Retired Stevens workers then spend the last years of their lives in poverty. One man who had worked at a Stevens plant for 40 years was rewarded with a pension of $15 a week...
...policeman who was on horseback, and the only path he could clear for us through the crowd was on cobblestones on the trolley track. We ran the last six miles over cobblestone following a horse's ass," he said, adding that he ran in "one dollar sneakers with 15 cent inner soles because there were no running shoes back then...
...DELEGATES to the Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention should be commended for their acute sense of the lack of any organized student voice, influence, or power in how Harvard is run. Our recent experiences with the Core Curriculum, in which the opposition of 65 per cent of the student body was ignored, and with Harvard's contribution to apartheid, in which the united petition of over 3000 students was ignored, expose the costs of having no leverage over the University...
...Cornell donnybrook, thanks to the mauling of his shoulder received at the hands of a Bruin laxman. Attackman Billy Forbush and midfielder Terry Trusty also took their licks at Providence, while stellar defenseman Haywood Miller remains seriously hurt and Jim Ossyra and Frank Prezioso are less than 100 per cent...
Meanwhile, students and freshman proctors are not preparing any rave reviews of the production. Students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education seem satisfied with the Core now that the amendments have passed, but a Crimson poll showed last week that 65 per cent of the students who were familiar with the Core opposed the plan...