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...page 26 of the Ad Board user's guide, the disciplinary cases by type and action are enumerated. The "types" listed are broad to say the least. According to the chart, a student can be required to withdraw for "inappropriate social behavior." Apparently this is the rubric my "crime" falls under. But who is to define what is "socially acceptable behavior"? Where and how are the boundaries drawn for what is "socially acceptable"? De facto, the Administration retains the right to punish anyone as it sees fit. The Administration makes great use of its power to punish students for "inappropriate...
Another school of critics claims that growing media concentration has caused journalism to lose much of its aggressiveness and credibility. The Nation magazine last June devoted a special issue to media conglomerates, including a chart detailing the tentacles of four dominant companies: General Electric (owner of NBC), Walt Disney Co. (ABC), Time Warner (CNN) and Westinghouse (CBS). Americans may be tuning out the news, the magazine speculated, "because they don't trust its homogenized premise of objectivity, especially when Disneyized, Murdochized, Oprahized and Hard Copyized." Though these corporate ownerships are becoming more apparent (Good Morning America travels to Disney World...
...hour discussion last night, 16 student activists attempted to chart out the future of UNITE, a new progressive coalition on campus...
...offer such plans. MCI Telecommunications president Timothy Price jeers, "The routine is that MCI introduces a service and AT&T says it isn't necessary. Then a year later they come out with something similar." AT&T isn't the only phone company whose stock is under pressure (see chart). Share prices of the Baby Bells have also lagged the market. Next year new federal legislation will allow the Baby Bells--regional phone companies spun off from AT&T under a 1984 antitrust decree--to start muscling in on the long-distance market too. Some analysts think that over time...
...Beatles, cuddly and chart busting, are the inspiration for Hanks' Wonders. The later Beatles, of Sgt. Pepper and The White Album, are fodder for Rutle in chief Neil Innes, who for Archaeology composed such cheery pastiches as "You got lonely-phobia / And I only hope ya / Get better." Innes says George Harrison gave his blessing to the project. "He said, 'Why not? It's all part of the soup.'" Why not indeed? Rutles footage appears on the Anthology video...