Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to Benjamin Heller's article "A Few Tutors too Many" (March 20) in which he aired his opinion that the resident tutors of Winthrop House are not performing any worthwhile function and are crowding the students. He feels that it is a waste of the students' money for tutors to live and eat in the house, and he particularly resents the fact some tutors have children whom he must also "support...
While this production of Love's Labor's Lost clearly has Uphoff's vision stamped all over it, credit should be given to set designers David McMahon and Chuck Admanis in helping her to realize it. The set pieces cleverly combine function and style, as with the life-size doll house and white picket fence that mark "the palace" into which no woman must enter...
...most important function of a multicultural student center, though, would be the one that is fundamental to any student center: providing a space for just hanging out. Harvard has classrooms for classes, houses for housing, exercise rooms for exercising but almost no lounges for lounging. And while some houses offer superb facilities for hanging out (North and Quincy come to mind) don't we see too much of our housemates...
Other familiar components of the TV landscape may disappear as well. Local affiliate stations, which have the exclusive right to pick up network shows and distribute them to viewers in their localities, would seem to have no function -- except as suppliers of local news and other community-based programming. The video store may be another dodo bird. When any Hollywood release can be called up instantly on the home screen, a cumbersome system in which people have to trek to the corner video store to rent a tape, then return it a day later, seems like a low-tech anachronism...
...says minority student organizations need their own offices in order to function effectively and to serve the campus...