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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there really were a lasting boycott among women, faster than you can say Lysistrata, the clubs would feel the pressure. After all, there's only so much fun to be had in half-naked sumo wrestling. Women Appealing for Change, a more or less formal campus group, tried this strategy two years ago with mixed success. They managed to get the Fly Club to commit to a co-ed punch, but after that their movement lost momentum and the women returned through the side door. And the Fly Club's grad board postponed the co-ed punch indefinitely...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Members Only, In Drag | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

...formal in the original bill would have cost $15,500. It was amended to cut the council's contribution...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. Cuts Budget for Freshman Formal | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council passed all eight resolutions--including a controversial plan on funding this spring's freshman formal--it brought to the table in a four-hour meeting...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. Cuts Budget for Freshman Formal | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

According to council Vice-President Brian R. Blais '97, the core of the issue rested on the existence of the formal...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. Cuts Budget for Freshman Formal | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

After three weeks of wildly seesawing talks in Dayton, Ohio, the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 19-25 | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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