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...Delta's Sunset...
Kleinfelder predicts that this growing popularity will force small colleges like Delta State and Immaculata, which now lead the rankings, out of these top slots, because they "won't be able to keep up with larger colleges in recruiting women players...
...kind of art, one was expected to be "against" others. Besides, a new class of collectors, anxious to commit their money only to sure bets?to what would be Historically Inevitable, to the mainstream of culture?wanted authorities. Not today. The American mainstream has fanned out into a delta, in which the traditional idea of an avant-garde has drowned. Thus, in defiance of the dogma that realist painting was killed by abstract art and photography, realism has come back in as many forms as there are painters...
Other top candidates for appointment are Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who gave Carter crucial backing in the Michigan primary; Jesse Hill, president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; Herman Russell, an Atlanta contractor; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.; John Cox, a Delta Airlines consultant who was the only well-known black to support Carter for Georgia Governor in 1970; Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Many others are hoping for a berth. Quips a black Democratic official in Atlanta: "Half the blacks here already have their bags packed to come to Washington...
...hazing does not result in death, of course, but if the practice is not always dangerous, it is often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds...