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...people don't want to go to the meetings," said Michael E. Johnson '92, who is a member of the council and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). "And if they do go, they're afraid of asking the wrong questions...They [freshmen] need early information and the fair provides literature and personal contact with members of the department which can be helpful...
Congress is taking a cue from such state and local initiatives as it begins to consider new ways of promoting home ownership. After years of battling the Reagan Administration's wrecking-ball approach, which leveled housing funds from 7.5% of the federal budget in the late 1970s to 1.5% last year, many legislators now want the Government to aid first-time buyers actively. One bill, sponsored by Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, would create a $6 billion fund to make low-interest mortgage loans to first- timers who earn up to 115% of the median income...
...newly formed Women's Alliance--and the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) from which women activists say they have taken their cue--will have its hands full in the next month responding to the forthcoming Verba Report on affirmative action in the faculty. The product of a high-level faculty committee's deliberations over the past semester, the report is expected to be released sometime in the next few weeks...
Mississippi Burning is rooted as firmly in film history as it is in social history. It takes its cue not so much from the buddy films as from Warner Bros. melodramas of the '30s, like Black Legion and They Won't Forget, which seized some social-issue headlines and fit them into brisk, dynamic fiction. % It is movie journalism: tabloid with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn...
...descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with every few sentences of dialogue, to underscore shifts in mood and to cue the audience that it has entered a realm of symbol and ritual. Pickup trucks outside a storefront sound as loud as jets. A half-demented Southern belle wears makeup reminiscent of a clown...