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...room is a restricted-access area in the bowels of Widener containing journals on sexuality. Why aren't these journals in the regular stacks? The library employees I asked didn't know, but I presume it's because the University considers them too dirty for undergraduate minds. A typical excerpt from the Journal of Sex Research...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: For Mature Audiences Only | 2/13/1990 | See Source »

...instance, The Crimson ran a letter last week complaining that the libraries have poor lighting. Awwwww. The Independent ran an entire opinion piece titled "In Defense of Deadlines." Here's an excerpt so juicy the Indy decided to enlarge...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Reading Period Disease | 2/3/1990 | See Source »

...excerpt from new free speech guidelines accepted Wednesday by the Faculty Council. The full Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will vote on the rules in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...service began with an opening prayer by Sister Mary Karen Powers of the Catholic Student Center at Harvard and a moment of silence, followed by an excerpt from a letter written by a former Harvard graduate staying in El Salvador, a short poem by a Guatemalen poet, and Hollenbach's reflection...

Author: By Henri K. Lee, | Title: Service Commemorates Killing of Jesuit Priests | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: A Texas-Size L.B.J. Obsession | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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