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When the Ad Board looks at the Pi initiation today, it must do so in the context of what the club has become. Leaving aside the question of the overall worth of a male social club, the Pi has become a place where heavy drinking and overall crude behavior are admired. Members' comments that last week's incident was only the standard initiation a little bit out of control are evidence of this destructive mindset--one the College should not condone. The annual streak, for instance, is only indicative of the club's grossly unenlightened attitude which officially brands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Serious To Ignore | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...brought its suit shortly before the expiration of the three-year period in which the agency can challenge an estate filing. Charles Sabin, a Newhouse attorney who had been negotiating with the agency, termed the fraud charge "shocking and uncalled for" and "an obvious, crude tactic to force a settlement, on patently unfair terms, by intimidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auditing the Grand Acquisitor | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...used to such deadly effect against the British in the Falklands war last year. Once the Super Etendards are equipped with the Exocets, the Iraqis would have a weapons system capable of hitting and blocking Iranian oil facilities that still ship an estimated 2.2 million bbl. per day of crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Jet Threat | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...amateur archeologist himself. Benton explains that he wants to discourage future relic-hunters from destroying archeological information "We're not going to reward anyone who goes out and finds a treasure of the United States and digs it up himself," he says. "What we're talking about is a crude digger who has no respect: the net result is he probably destroys more than he saves," Benton adds...

Author: By Michael F.P. Doming, | Title: The Tale of the Tunica Treasure | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

...only worry in many Australian minds was that the champers would run out. A 130-ft. by 65-ft. Australian flag was hung from Sydney Harbor bridge. In every village, town and city from Wollongong to Jiggalong, car, bus, train and ferry horns blared and ululated from daybreak on. Crude posters with messages like YOU BEAUTIES and WE KEELED THEM sprouted outside homes, shops and public buildings. At Brisbane's Crest International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with the Australian flag, a stuffed koala bear placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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