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...headline in Friday's Crimson characterized a restriction on summer school students as a "curfew." In fact, the ban prohibits students from congragating in the Lowell House courtyard during specific hours; it does not proscribe any other movement or require students to be anywhere else at a certain time...
...also find it intriguing that the Summer School administration has imposed a gag order on proctors to prevent them from discussing the curfew. When I was a proctor, the Summer School frequently attempted to ignore or prevent the discussion of problems affecting students, even to the point of compromising student safety...
...article "Curfew Imposed on Lowell House Summer Students" (news story, Aug. 11, 1995), The Crimson erroneously states that this is the first year Lowell has been used to accommodate secondary students. In fact, Lowell was used for secondary school students as recently as 1993, when I served as a proctor for the Summer School...
...CAPITAL CURFEW...
Skirmishes quickly spread to other parts of Gaza City. Officials ordered a curfew, to no avail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...