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...impression that they are all equally culpable for behavior patterns which may not be universal throughout the final club community. While all the clubs share some basic negative characteristics, it is simply not fair to raise the charge of dealing drugs and allow it to hang over eight distinct organizations. The lack of specifics in the report suggests that the Dean's office either has not done its homework or that it is protecting ethical and legal transgressors even as it purports to criticize them...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Epps' Letter on Clubs is Laudable | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...formed. If the new team were in Jakarta, the proximity thing might be an issue. But if the lucky city were in New Jersey, my adoration of the team's players and current makeup may make me a fan of the new team, holding the old one as distinct in my sports fan's heart...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Figuring Out the Fans | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

Similarly, solicited e-mails should be fully protected by free speech. The unsolicited "broadcasting" of bigoted emails which Mr. Tucker generalizes to stand for all forms of e-mail is separate and fully distinct matter. Even Internet sites which "distribute racist vitriol" are protected under free speech laws, because unlike unsolicited e-mail, the user must take a deliberate action to receive them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E-Mail Differs From Broadcasting | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

During embryonic development, millions of neurons mature over a period of a few days. Through a process which is not well-understood by scientists, these neurons grow to form the intricate connections that will become the cortex--which is organized into a pattern of six distinct layers...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: The Road to Understanding Brains | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

...selections even exhibits distinct elements of post-modernism. If Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of An Author is meta-theater, then "Duck Amuck" is the first meta-cartoon. Daffy is denied scenery, erased, and put through all sorts of animated torture until he demands to know "who is responsible for this!" The perpetrator turns out to be Bugs Bunny, who sits at the animator's table and says to the audience, "Ain't I a stinker...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: The Story of One Rabbit's Struggle | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

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