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...Coalition of Student Leaders for U.C. Reform and concerned supporters: Joshua D. Powe '98, Coalition Organizer; Derrick N.A. Ashong '97, President BSA; Sharon W.S. Gi '98, Co-Chair AAA; Sewell Chan '98, Co-Chair AAA; Sarita M. James '98, Co-Chair SAC; Jessy J. Fernandez '98, Co-Chair MSA; Devi Sengupta '98, Co-Chair MSA; Helen A. Skinner '98, Pres. Expression Dance Co.; Celia S. Edwards '99, Vice-Pres. Expression Co.; Mallar Bhattacharya '98, Co-President SAA; Clem A. Pollydore '99, Co-Chair Caribbean Club; Andres R. Nolasco, Co-Chair Fuerza Quisqueyana; Diana Adair, President Girl Spot; Chinwe Onyeagoro...
...efforts to diversify are good, as long as there is not an attitude that they have to fill a quota," said Devi Sengupta '98, co-president of the MSA. "But I feel that their efforts are genuine...
LUMBINI, NEPAL: Beneath the Maya Devi temple to Buddha's mother in this southwestern Nepal town lies a recently uncovered complex of rooms that may transform this remote hamlet into a sort of mecca for the world's 340 million Bhuddists. After carefully studying the chambers discovered 9 months ago, a multinational team of archaeologists has announced that the rooms prove that ancient inscriptions claiming the site is Buddha's birthplace are true. The inscriptions were found on a pillar at the ancient Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion...
Rape victim. Marauder. Murderer. Superstar! Phoolan Devi, an outcast Hindu woman, became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt alite. Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, on Feb. 14, 1981, she staged her own St. Valentine's Day massacre, leading the slaughter of 22 villagers she suspected of aiding her enemies. Yet her surrender, in 1983, was on her own terms, to the cheers of 10,000 supporters. On her release from prison last year, three political parties asked her to run for office...
...Devi, who sued to stop a Toronto Film Festival screening of Bandit Queen, has since settled with the producers and, says Kapur, "now stands by the film." But the Indian government would not grant her a passport to attend the U.S. premiere. American filmgoers can see an exciting movie that brings Devi's story to life with passion but without passing judgment. In India, though, a venal game is being played: the upper-class guardians of public morality who once defamed this low-caste rebel are now ensuring that Bandit Queen remains an untouchable...