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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Free and open discussion of controversial issues is vital to the future of our university community. Yet continued reliance on the Committee on Race Relations as a political tribunal will inevitably discourage teachers from raising precisely those issues that most insistently demand to be the subject of sustained and vigorous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thernstrom | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

Vice President George Bush: Millionaire. Bush is the favored son of the Republican Party and has all the money to prove it. Consequently, he pulled off a huge media blitz against competitor Senator Robert Dole, including a half hour live talkshow. His televised attack on Dole's votes for tax...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: A Word to the Wise, Advice to the Ailing | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

I am not judging Thernstrom's character; I am simply asking questions about his presentation of the material, and his defense for it.

Author: By Wendi Grantham, | Title: Course Displayed Racial Insensitivity | 2/17/1988 | See Source »

Although Ball's shows did not defy the female homemaker convention, in many ways the programs were ahead of their time in portraying women confident enough to act on their own, outside of their stereotypical domain. Unlike most of the bubble-headed, husband-dominated wives of 50's sitcoms, Lucy...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Having A Ball | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

Describing the one she could lose it to as "hard to get along with," Witt might be referring to the juicy fact that both Thomas and she will be registering at Calgary under the same assumed name: Carmen. Independently, they selected music from Bizet's opera, and naturally neither would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skater Debi Thomas: The Word She Uses Is Invincible | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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