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...First the fall semester exam period then thesis season passed without an explosion of publicity about new cases. The near-hysteria of last year s perceived epidemic remained just a memory. Now, a year after the first rash of publicity, it seems appropriate to ask just what happened. Was it just some sort of premature millenial outbreak? God s belated answer to the prayers of the Luddites? Or is the the perceived drop-off merely a mirage, a product of the short attention span of our own Fourth Estate? The fact is, no one really knows...
...representatives from various University committees reported on their recent activity. The library committee reported that Langdell Library at Harvard Law School (HLS) plans to limit library access during the HLS exam period as law students felt that there were too many undergraduates flooding the library. Langdell will be closed to all students not in the law school from now until the end of the HLS exam period...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) plans to press on with the search during reading and exam periods in order to find a director who can coordinate the program during the important summer planning stages...
...approach, however, that requires diligence on the part of the parents. Project race (Reclassify All Children Equally)--a campaign started by Ryan Graham, a biracial Florida teenager, and his mother Susan--has won changes in the act college-entrance-exam forms and some minor alterations in the U.S. Census form as well as on some local and state government forms. But most of society has not yet taken to the concept of biracial identity. Most government forms don't include a multiracial box, and it's usually up to the parent to make sure a child isn't compartmentalized...
With final exams drawing near and the semester coming to a close, the idea of "free time" seems all but a myth (except maybe for those lucky seniors). Visions of late nights in front of the computer, caffeine in hand, trying to catch up on an entire semester's worth of work start clouding your head. All your friends will be home by the time your first exam starts, already snickering at the fact that you can't yet enjoy the sunshine. No, reading period doesn't look like much fun. But, have no fear, dear readers, Hollywood is near...