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They can point out, for example, that Tipper Gore was among the first crusaders against obscene rock lyrics. First Lady Hillary Clinton has made frequent, if muted, denunciations of media vulgarity, and now seems to be turning up the volume, most recently in her appearance on Oprah. And sandwiched into Bill Clinton's long State of the Union message in January was a plea to Hollywood "to assess the impact of your work and to understand the damage that comes from the incessant, repetitive, mindless violence and irresponsible conduct that permeates our media all the time...
Although the BSC could be helpful, advising and support can and should begin closer to home. Resident tutors should keep in contact with their advisees by calling them to find out about classes and anxieties, by making their presence known around the houses and by hosting frequent study breaks...
Independent book purveyors have been forced to find innovative new ways to compete with the huge selections and frequent discounting of the superstores. At Nickleby's in Columbus, Ohio, owner Palmer Cook maintains an antique tub for children to play in, as well as a bakery. One of the nation's best-regarded bookstores, Tattered Cover in Denver, bumped its biography and cooking sections off the first floor last November to accommodate a gourmet snack bar where visitors down cannoli and blueberry cheesecake while they pore over the latest hardcovers. Earlier this month owner Joyce Meskis went a step further...
...machine went haywire, locking and recycling balls like crazy. Players usually content with 300,00,000 points gawked at scores exceeding 7,000,000,000. Frequent costomers lined up to give the game the game its comeuppance at no cost, since the credits just kept mounting. "That's cheating," one protested, daring to invalidate this brief show of human superiority. Some of us would rather believe that the rules had just changed slightly...
...does the Coop exist? To carry textbooks, offer posters in September, sell a few clothes, perhaps, and offer a good deal on CDs--if you get a frequent buyer's card and take advantage of student discounts. But outside of that, we can't really say. It's time to jettison those weak departments, even if they do fill up all the space in that huge building. Daniel Altman...