Word: elgin
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...communist country? Is communism still a threat to the democratic world? To the Asian countries, Taiwan in particular, the answer is yes. The U.S., the leader of the free world, should have second thoughts about the way it treats communist China and democratic Taiwan. CHENG-MIN TSENG Port Elgin...
According to Elgin K. Eckert, a second-year graduate student and current GSC acting president, the University is discussing the possibility of making the discount T-pass system a University-wide, operation. Currently, the system, which allows students an 11 percent discount on T-passes, is a small operation run by the GSC for graduate students only...
...also discussed affordable housing and improved athletic facilities with Rudenstine. According to Elgin, the prices of University housing--including developments like Peabody Terrace and Holden Green--is competitive with the Cambridge market, but few graduate students can afford market prices...
...Elgin added, however, that a positive note in the meeting was the "close to definite" decision to preserve Hemenway Gym, the athletic facility used most frequently by GSAS students. Hemenway will not be converted into an office building to house the Undergraduate Admissions office...
Across the pond, in London, the Atlantic Bar and Grille played host to Harvard globe-trotters. One source told FM that some intellectually curious Harvard folks turned down an exclusive party for the Elgin Marbles. (We dig.) Freshmen, juniors and seniors rubbed elbows in Harrod's and traded stories in the Tube. But with miserable weather, arduous museum-visits and third-rate eats, Ivy League breakers needed chemical relief and patronized the local "chemist" for great U.K. drugs (unavailable in the U.S. without prescription...