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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case is discussed at a meeting of the ad board. Roughly half of those students who receive unsatisfactory records are placed on probation for a semester. Students who fail two or more are usually asked to withdraw. Failure of a course in two successive semesters usually results in either probation or withdrawal. Approximately half of those students placed on probation are restricted from participating in any extracurricular activities...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...story of a Grand Rapids businessman tracking down his missing daughter in the seamy world of pornography had potential both as a commercial success and as a moving and controversial screenplay, but Schrader fails to introduce the powerful emotional issues that could have accomplished either. Although George C. Scott as the father gives the audience some agonized faces and fits of rage, even his performance is not compelling. The fiction of the film fails to reveal why the daughter runs away, or why she would agree--in the astonishingly unconvincing last scene--to come home. Nor does it suggest...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Harder They Come | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Number four Courtney Stimpson dropped a heartbreaker that could have gone either way, losing 18-15 and 18-17 in two excruciatingly close contests. Stimpson came up on the short end of a 3-1 score, while Wendy Sonnabend was shut out, 3-0, in the number-five battle...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale Stops Racquetwomen In Key Ivy League Battle | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

...Westigard states incorrectly, I believe, that TVA is planning 17 new nuclear power plants. There are six currently under construction, but Dawn Ford, chief of the citizen's action office, noted yesterday that they were all begun before either of the Carter appointments were made. There are no additional plants planned. David Freeman, who has labeled the plan for a nuclear breeder reactor a "turkey," has also called for a reassessment of TVA's reliance on nuclear power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TVA: Same Old Menace? | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

Caplan said she felt torn between emphasizing the plight of migrant workers in general and "telling the special story of Laura, who now lives in two cultures, not totally belonging to either...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Student Recalls Migrant Life During CBS 'Thirty Minutes' | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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