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...HARVARD GOES, so goes the nation. The shortened reading period that students here faced last semester has now taken hold at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, in Evanston, III. where Winter Quarter's former seven-day Reading Week was cut to four days. Like their Cantab counterparts, Northwestern students bitched aplenty because of the change, but Dean Rudolph Weingartner offered the "hope that nobody's grades depend on an extra two days." Like Harvard's mini-reading period, Northwestern's was the result of a scheduling fluke, and will return to full length in the future. Some, though, apparently benefit from the mandatory...
...think a year- round tan is a good, successful, power look. It's just a part of good grooming." Better yet, a tan in the dead of winter implies that the wearer has the money and leisure to travel to exotic, sunny locales. Says Jeff Russell, 23, of Evanston, Ill.: "It's a conversation piece. People are always asking, 'Where have you been?' " The only problem is that the truthful answer may soon be all too commonplace: down at the tanning salon for a quick once-over...
Leonard is not the only one who blames the disagreements about women partly on the Pope's personal background. "He thinks of nuns as a servant class," says Rosemary Ruether, professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. "He brought nuns with him to Rome to cook his sausages. All his statements about women have only one thing to say: motherhood." The Pope got a taste of such criticisms on his visit to the U.S. in 1979. Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, declared in his presence that the church...
...roaming salesman of aluminum siding, Pete Ueberroth was born Sept. 2, 1937, in Evanston, Ill. His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth. Perhaps because Victor's education ended in the eighth grade, he always had an encyclopedia near by and engaged his family in mind puzzles, a drill Peter used years later to brace his Olympic employees. His mother, Laura Larson, half Swedish and half Irish, had been ill almost from the time he was born. A Christian Scientist, like her husband...
Nancy D. Halwig Evanston...