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...only hope that your decision to publish yesterday's letter of Geoffrey Bok '84, of al, was not an implicit endorsement of his weakly argued, bleeding-heart, pecudo-liberal position. Mr. Bok, erroneously grouping the Pi Eta Speaker's Club with all social clubs, attempts to make a clarion call for The Crimson to "impartially explore" how clubs such as the Pi Eta stand in contradiction with independent thinking and encouragement of diversity. In the case of the Pi Eta, this accusation could not be further from the truth and suggests that Mr. Bok has but partially explored the issue...
...Village," which slows to a crawl before springing into a bouncy dance number, "586," and the clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
...look heavenward in September, you may catch a glimpse of a drifting cloud, a soaring bird, or a Harvard pilot. "Up in the air, Harvard Birdmen" is the clarion call of the newly accredited Flying Club...
Lawmakers who opposed the paper's call for change were cited in Clarion-Ledger editorials under the designation "Hall of Shame." Legislators protested the unaccustomed pressure, but at the urging of Governor William Winter, as well as the paper, they enacted new school taxes, across-the-board teacher pay raises, reading aid, a stronger compulsory-attendance law and state support for kindergartens. Said Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Charles Overby, 36: "Pulitzers have come to Mississippi before, some for reporting about things the state failed to do. This one is for what Mississippi...
Last year, after Hederman left, the family sold the Clarion-Ledger and its evening sister paper, the Jackson Daily News (circ. 40,000), to the Gannett Co. the nation's biggest (87 dailies) newspaper chain. But Hederman's goal of improvement survived. The paper opened bureaus in three Mississippi cities and began to send reporters to cover stories throughout the South. Says Managing Editor Rober Gordon: "We are a good newspaper trying to get better...