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Many people ask, "Why has Sherman Holcombe become so hated and abused by the management? What about the other stewards, aren't they doing their job, too?" To this I answer, yes, they are, in fact many of them also have been hit with foolish warnings. But for the past year and a half that I've been a shop steward, I have been raising an issue that the University is especially anxious to keep swept under the carpet. I am speaking of the grievances I have raised about the non-posting of job opportunities. I believe it is mainly...
...century notions of the civilizing ideals which, Scenarist Mitchell implies, persist into and continually plague the 20th. Accordingly, this Friday comes from a very hip tribe. He laughs openly at Crusoe's attempts to instill the principles of wage-earning and sporting competition and figures Christianity to be foolish but harmless. Crusoe is soon turned into a pratfall personification of Western man. When an opportunity to escape the island arrives, he begs to join Friday's tribe. They will not have him, and he must return again to his lonely habitation...
While Dow reports no drop in the number of enrolled students since the policy change, the attractiveness of English E has diminished somewhat in the eyes of some students. "It is a foolish policy," says Benjamin Geva, a second-year law student who had to cough up the $240. "Students should be encouraged to take this course, but for many people, the cross-registration fee can be the straw that breaks the back of the camel," he adds...
...tragedy and others when it verges on absurdist farce. The broadly farcical sequences lighten what might otherwise be a plodding melodrama and heighten the pathos of The Boy Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity. The Boy Wonder rejects the idea--an idea which...
Saturday Night [Feb. 2] is the most "living" thing since "living color" started. SN is sophomoric-from sophos (wise) and moros (foolish). It is wisely foolish and foolishly wise...