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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University Hall's grievances against student anti-apartheid protesters are currently being considered by the CRR, a judiciary body which can independently administer the full range of University punishments--except dismissal and expulsion, which require approval from the full Faculty. But students complaining of violations of their rights had no independent authority to which they could appeal. The only formal channel for their complaints was the COI, a body whose function, according to the Handbook for Students, is to "re-direct [complaints] to the appropriate agency of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences" but which has "no power to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Create A New Body | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

Welles obviously has much to tell, but he has always been reluctant to tell it, except in occasional bursts of self-promotion. But Barbara Leaming, a professor of theater and film at Hunter College, managed to arrange a meeting at Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles early in 1983. Something about her encyclopedic knowledge of his life, combined with her gushing admiration, persuaded him to keep talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orson Wells | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...PARTIES DRAG in their psychological garbage for viewer perusal, which consists mostly of good old-fashioned Catholic guilt. Livingston's sister died in a convent, so she would like to hate Catholicism, except her senile mother makes her feel guilty about being ungodly, and professional ethics call for objectivity in the case. Agnes thinks her child's father was God, so naturally she has ambiguous feelings towards her heavenly spouse. And poor Mother Superior has the misfortune of also being Agnes's aunt, which makes her feel responsible both for Agnes's abuse as a child and Agnes's eventual...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Lukewarm Guilt | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Edwards can't explain why he opposed the general political flow of his times except to say that it was due to his family. "I was a cradle conservative," says the newspaperman's son. "It was a natural thing for me to be attracted to Goldwater...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Some Interesting Fellows | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

Neither did those at Nini's Corner, except cashier Doug Fay who said "my car was right next to [the sign]. That's the only reason I noticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Sign is Casualty Of Friday's Hurricane | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

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