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...place was the Lower Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where two weeks ago students were celebrating the last week of classes and blowing off a little pre-finals pressure at the annual Spring Fling. In the carnival-like atmosphere, filled with strains of rock and the smell of hamburgers and beer, thousands of students relax under the approving eye of the administration. The first impression the outside observer gets is that Penn students take themselves seriously, but not too seriously to preclude a weekend of total chaotic...
...first impressions can be deceiving "After Spring Fling, you'll never see these people out again. It's the only weekend many people put down their books," comments Dante A. Goreno, a sophomore in Penn's Wharton School, a business undergraduate and graduate school...
While Spring Fling has been a fixture at Penn for over 10 years, it has become increasingly valuable as a respite from academic pressure, which both officials and students claim are more prevalent this year than ever before Dr. Sam Fager, director of Penn's student health and counseling services explains that this buildup of stress has become so noticeable recently that it prompted health officials to call for a two-day break from classes in late October to help students to "depressurize." Administrators were interested in the idea, and say they will include the break...
Founded in the early 1970s, Sendero Luminoso claims as many as 1,000 members, most of them peasants and students from the mountains. Their eccentric ideology is mingled with a curious form of messianic tribalism. The Senderistas use Inca slingshots, for example, to fling dynamite sticks at targets. The guerrillas' atavistic tactics have evoked a similar response from the Andean villagers. When eight journalists were killed near Ayacucho in January, a government commission concluded that villagers had perpetrated the crime using Senderista methods. The bodies of the newsmen were carefully stripped, washed and turned face down, while their clothes...
...Chicago hair stylist, had occasionally sniffed coke for a decade. In the fall of 1981, she tried free-basing and was soon spending whole days with her pipe. "Once I started that, all I wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person, I don't let things get the best of me. Nothing. But I know I'm powerless with cocaine." Says Kevin McEneaney, senior vice president of New York's Phoenix House drug-treatment center: "We all think our personalities...