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...have been worried by rumors that Harvard is planning to demolish MEMORIAL HALL. Well, relax. According to Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, the old white elephant will probably be standing when we are all dead and gone. On other fronts, yesterday was quiet. An SDS rally to support a boycott of GM drew about 50 people to the steps of Mem Church. A man in Sao Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers...
...elite?governs others. Patriarchy is thus limned as the institutional foe. Labeling it as the "most pervasive ideology of our culture," she argues that it provides our "fundamental concept of power." Women are helpless, in other words, because men control the basic mechanisms of society. Her solution is drastic: demolish the patriarchal system. Until this is done, women and men as well will "remain imprisoned in the vast gray stockades of sexual reaction. There is no way out but to rebel and be broken, stigmatized and cured...
...part, Con Ed claims to be improving the area's natural beauty. The old buildings along the water front below Storm King are dilapidated, and the company plans to demolish them and fill in a mile of river shallows for a 57-acre park...
...Jumbos rely on an extremely strong batting attack. Against Northeastern, considered early in the season to be the GBL's best team. Tufts fell behind by five runs, only to demolish the Huskies in the last innings...
...increase the strike's impact, some students might be tempted to take more militant actions such as attempting to shut down; possibly by violence, ROTC buildings and other on-campus symbols of the military. Far from being strong blows against the military, such actions would be like trying to demolish the Pentagon with a few slingshots. Universities do provide some services to the military, but these services can be-and undoubtedly will be, if necessary-procured through other channels such as expanded military academies and government-operated research laboratories. At most, militant campaigns against ROTC and defense research can impose...