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WORCESTER, Mass.—While the quarterback situation may be in flux for Harvard, the Crimson can still count on stability from junior running back Clifton Dawson. The Payton Award finalist from a year ago started his case to be considered for the I-AA equivalent of the Heisman Trophy again this year with an outstanding first game...
...center’s leadership has been in flux since Sachs left for Columbia University in 2002, taking a large share of the center’s grants along with...
...national study issued last month by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 79% of 112,000 freshmen surveyed profess a belief in God; 69% say they pray. Still, only 40% think it is very important to follow religious teachings in everyday life. Spiritually, "college is a time of flux," says Alexander Astin, the study's co--principal investigator. That leads to "a dramatic falling-off of religious participation during the undergraduate years." But a significant minority are holding fast to their faith. Fourteen percent put themselves in the "other Christian" category--dominated by the nondenominational Protestant churches that have proliferated...
...When areas are in flux, it is important that the Administration speak out." So said Attorney General Edwin Meese early this month, signaling the Justice Department's intention to take a more activist and aggressive posture toward the Supreme Court and its rulings. Last week Meese's agency took aim at a favorite target of President Reagan and many of his conservative supporters: the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion. The Justice Department filed a 30-page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision...
...timetable for the Faculty to debate and vote on curricular review proposals remains in flux, after professors spent all of last week’s Faculty meeting debating University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership and failed to address the scheduled agenda item about the review...