Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stephen E. Cotton '68, a first-year student and a co-author of the grades report said yesterday, "We were trying to communicate to them the intensity of first-year felling that change is necessary. They have a lot of difficulty understanding that, but they're concerned, and I think it's getting through...
Every weekend, as he travels from hamlet to hamlet, President Joaquin Balaguer carries with him a large bottle of alcohol and a supply of cotton. While he shakes hands with the country folk and listens attentively to their complaints, he constantly wipes his hands with alcohol as a precaution against disease. In the Dominican Republic, however, it is a lot easier to ward off germs than political foes. Balaguer is plagued by enemies and rivals. Last week he decided to face them down by announcing his decision to run again in the next elections, scheduled...
...committee was established in response to a grade reform report written by several first-year students. But one of the report's authors, first-year student Steven E. Cotton, said yesterday he was dissatisfied with the memorandum. It failed to make clear the authors' role in the committee investigations and the timetable for a committee recommendation, he said...
...Cotton said the memorandum was "an assurance that they'll call us in to talk. If that only means they'll put us on a guest list, it's not enough. If it means working closely with students who have spent many hours thinking through the issues and drafting the report, then we're on the same wavelength...
...Although the committee will proceed expeditiously, it is impossible to predict how long it will take the committee to perform its task," Bok said. Cotton replied, "If we're going to get change this year, it can't be made the day before exams. That just won't work...