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DIED. James Groppi, 54, former Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King Jr., led at least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
...Bills that will delay this to next year will kill [the reforms]," Groppi said. "Everything [the committee has] worked for will...
...major problem with the U.C. and the student body is a lack of communication," said Susan M. Groppi '98, vice-chair of the reform committee. "The U.C. doesn't know what the student body wants from it and the student body doesn't know what the U.C. is doing...
Mostly, though, it just makes me happy to see that someone else has gone through the same photocopy traumas at the hands of the Harvard library system. At last, I know I'm not alone. Susan M. Groppi...
Officers said they had hoped to use the meeting to create subcommittees, but the small size of the group presented "an unexpected opportunity [for] brainstorming...to think about what is the purpose, function, and mission of student government," said committee vice-chair Susan M. Groppi...