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...Certainly, all old institutions are concerned about keeping up a certain image and, more meaningfully, perpetuating their values and traditions. And the student activist movements of the '60s left us with a legacy of questioning University policies, ranging from Harvard's investments in apartheid-era South Africa to the dearth of tenured women and people of color in the ranks of the Faculty...
...dearth of community broadcasting has spurred a sudden proliferation of microbroadcasters, renegade radio buffs who mount their own low-wattage stations, flouting FCC licensing rules. Between 500 and 1,000 are estimated to be operating nationwide, up from a handful five years ago. Hence, the rebels on the Las Vegas Convention Center sidewalk, whose own three-day counterconvention, dubbed "Fear and Transmitting," took place in a rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against...
Moving on over to the silkier realm of the popworld, Blue Wail was blessed with a good vocalshowing but was stricken by the same dearth oforiginality as the Voodoo Crabs. Except for thesparkling "Island," a well-crafted, smooth andheartfelt selection under-appreciated by theaudience, the band showed that it needs to work onmaking its sound more unique...
...some, like Laura Lawless '00, who felt that her "childhood had been curtailed by frequent trips away to compete," and that she had "lost hours with friends because of musical responsibilities," coming to Harvard provided a newfound sense of freedom. With a dearth of practice rooms and a lack of adequate lesson subsidies, though, fair Harvard holds no beacon of liberation to guide her music students...
...fact, during the 25-Years-in-the-Yard celebration, when members of the Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC) wore T-shirts reading "Harvard Celebrates WHAT?" and put up posters decrying the dearth of tenured female professors, the pressure many women face in speaking up in class, the lack of financial and institutional support for the Women's Studies Committee, the absence of adequate resources for rape prevention and survivor support (an absence, we later learned, unique among Ivy League institutions) and the continued presence of elite, all-male final clubs where weekly efforts are made to attract and intoxicate...