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Jones quit and led the exodus to Guyana after New West magazine last year ran an expose of concentration camp conditions within the communes. According to reports, members were punished for smoking, fraternizing with outsiders or acting like "male chauvinist pigs." They were paddled as many as 100 times by the "Board of Education," a thick plank, and a microphone was placed near the mouths of victims to amplify screams for the congregation. Jones, who said he could raise the dead, also staged healing rites in which he claimed to pull cancerous organs from ill people; what...
...personally struck by the discrepancy between The Crimson's account and what I saw. I'd hardly say that there was at the meeting anything like a rousing discussion of the teaching issue. But on the other hand, there certainly was not a mass exodus and what exodus there was (and many did leave this as they do most long Faculty meetings before they're over) might be attributed to several motives besides lack of interest in teaching...
Saying he has not seen such a "mass exodus" in previous Faculty meetings, he added, "It is just typical of the Faculty's attitude toward teaching." Dean Rosovsky presented his annual budget letter to the Faculty warning that while the Faculty has had two consecutive years of a slight budget surplus, inflation threatens to bring a period of "renewed and considerable financial difficulty," he said...
...note that malls are voracious consumers of electricity and-because they can usually be reached only by automobile-of gasoline. They gobble up valuable farm land, pollute the environment, overtax local services, create great traffic snarls, and all too often are vast asphalt eyesores. Worse still, by encouraging the exodus of both shopkeepers and shoppers to the suburbs, they only hasten the decay of downtown areas...
This year--close to the 50th anniversary of Baker's exodus--his ghost has returned to visit the old haunt, in the form of Robert S. Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama and director of the Yale Repertory Theater...