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Many professors said they saw a similarity between the new post of diversity advisor and the now-defunct post of associate dean for affirmative action. The Crimson reported last December that the Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommended the restoration of the dean, but Kirby said then that he thought the job was best left to divisional deans...
...probably defunct Travaglini-Lees amendment was designed to satisfy both gay-marriage opponents and gay-union advocates, but it ultimately failed to please either camp...
People who live near Trump's site worry about the prospect of shadows, of crowded subways and buses. Yet Television City does not really seem so disruptive. The site, a defunct rail yard, is empty land; urban renewal rendered most of the adjoining blocks charmless years ago. Moreover, 8,000 new apartments should channel some of the gentrifying development pressure away from fragile Manhattan neighborhoods. The rooftop acreage is ingenious: the park will be above the elevated highway that runs along the Hudson, allowing pedestrians unimpeded views and a sense of riverfront connection...
...disco is closed from today on," reads a red lettered sign taped on the door of Zorba the Buddha Disco and Casino. Every day, buses and cars crammed with bicycles, stereos and followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pull away from the main gate of the guru's now defunct commune in the remote hills of Oregon. Since the Rajneesh pleaded guilty to a federal charge of immigration violation and departed last month for India, after firing a bitter parting shot at the U.S. ("I never want to return"), his 1,300 disciples have been scattering like college students...
...which appeared last fall in the now defunct Providence Eagle, attracted the attention of a number of not necessarily generous gentlemen in the Providence police force. They had been tipped off by officials of Brown University that some female students were possibly being coerced into performing sex for money. Last week, after a five-month undercover investigation, the police announced two arrests that not only cracked the case but stunned the Brown community, including the administration, alumni and parents...