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...half mile of asphalt and brownstones separating the Quad and the Yard seemed insignificant enough when coed housing and other integrating moves were made. But it was big enough to produce one of the first campus issues of recent years to arouse more than a dinner conversation--the chronic housing problem...
...Fogg's artwork "provides an opportunity for aesthetic experience and...scholarly research," Konrad Oberhuber, Curator of Drawings, said last week. Yet the museum suffers from a chronic lack of space, keeping 90 per cent or more of the collection squirrelled away on storage shelves. While scholars have access to this material, most students never have an opportunity to work with the bulk of the collection. In addition, the museum must at times turn down gifts of art work that might prove valuable to students because of space constraints. Although the number of donations to the museum varies each year, with...
...Each year Immigration agents all over the U.S. round up tens of thousands of illegals and send them home again. López Portillo has devised a two-pronged solution to the problem: the U.S. should relax its immigration rules to help this safety valve on Mexico's chronic unemployment, and should encourage American investment in Mexican industry, thereby providing more jobs...
Schachter's own "biochemical mechanism" currently requires 2½ packs a day, and he sees little hope of cutting down. "It's possible to control and restrict smoking, but the price appears to be a chronic state of withdrawal." He admits that like millions of other smokers, "I'm not willing to face that withdrawal...
When Mr. Scheft was looking for masqueraders, he entirely overlooked the fans at hockey games. The fans suffer from chronic lethargy and apathy, something of which the Band has never been able to cure them, although it has tried and is still trying. However, as in any persistently futile effort, momentary lapses are entirely unavoidable. The response of the fans to the Band is always nil. In fact, the only positive response the hockey band gets from anyone is great praise and support from the team itself, through Coach Cleary. After last year's playoff upset at UNH (were...