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...remember hearing about the U.C. earlier this year, when they were planning [last fall's Gala Ball]. There was a suggestion that they offer financial aid, rather than asking, 'Well, wait. Why would these people want to go to a formal anyway?' It's sort of alienating," says Matthew M. Davis '97, a student on full financial aid who grew up a small rural and industrial town in Michigan...
...Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...
...addition to these "smaller" services, Rudd has been responsible for a number of the council's most successful "big-ticket" projects--things like the Gala Ball, SpringFest (remember the free beer?) and a $12,000 (20 percent) increase in the student group grants fund...
...waste time on the Gala Ball. The council should not focus most of its energy, as some suggest, on social programs. Annual events like Springfest are great if they don't devour all of the council's time. But the council must be more than a glorified dance committee. It would be unfortunate, to say the least, if the council's trend towards increasing legitimacy and relevance was halted in favor of more concerts and formals...
Hang a lamb chop in the window and they will come used to be the reigning social doctrine in Washington. But now that the new ethics rules require Senators and Representatives to pay their own way, they stayed away in droves from Placido Domingo's gala, which raised $2.6 million for the Washington Opera last Sunday. Colin Powell and Ross Perot bought the $1,250 tickets, but they aren't used to having someone else pick...