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Professor Arthur N. Holcombe took over from Professor Ropes, becoming my faculty adviser in government. He was a fine man, a down-to-earth sort that everybody liked. Why I later took Professor Kirsopp Lake's half-year course in the New Testament escapes me. But it was a good course given by a reverent man. One day a classmate of ours came to the lecture straight from a fraternity hazing. He sat in the front row, and his garb and painted face so outraged Professor Lake that he dismissed the class without even starting his lecture...
Events were unfolding so fast that observers were having difficulty analyzing what everything meant. It seemed clear, however, that diplomats from many of the world's key countries were attempting new approaches to the two main problems that have raised international tensions to dangerous heights in the past half-year: the seizing of 53 American hostages by Iranian militants and the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan...
...closing of Dodge Main came a half-year ahead of the schedule announced last May by the Chrysler Corp., hastened by disastrously low auto sales throughout the summer and fall. But like the majority of the Dodge Main workers turned loose into the bleak Michigan winter, Wanda is not too hard-pressed financially. Under a company/union agreement, workers with the greatest seniority will have first dibs on jobs elsewhere. (Many may go to the Jefferson Avenue assembly plant, a nearby facility that will produce Chrysler's new front-wheel-drive small cars for next fall.) Wanda has worked...
...Standing Committee on the Core yesterday said it will keep the Core requirements down to eight half-year courses, in response to a letter from the Educational Resources Group (ERG) reminding the committee of its original guarantee not to increase the requirements...
Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and chairman of the Core subcommittee on Science, said he also believed non-science concentrators should not be free to exempt themselves from the science Core area requirement, which requires two half-year Core courses, one in Science A, covering the physical sciences and one in Science B, dealing with life sciences...