Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to fight city hall, but in Santa Monica, Calif., you can interrogate it by computer. Last week the city's new Public Electronic Network went on-line. As brochures mailed to residents advertised, PEN allows any citizen with a computer and a modem to communicate with city hall. Those who do not have a home computer can use any one of 20 public terminals set up at libraries and recreational centers...
When 150 young people assembled for church services in a movie theater outside Chicago 14 years ago, the congregation was so cash poor that some of the members had to sell tomatoes door to door to pay for the hall. Today the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., is the second largest Protestant congregation in America. During weekend services nearly 12,000 people regularly cram into its $15 million, 4,650-seat auditorium and complex. At a time when the mainstream Protestant denominations are rapidly losing members, Willow Creek's popular success and stripped-down theology are challenging...
Affirmative action office in University Hall should be kept informed of departmental efforts and successes in recruitment...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...
Needless to say, while no one at Mather defends homophobia, we were shocked by the misuse of fact that underlaid the action in the dining hall. The individual the group came to defend had sexually harassed my friend, and other instances are known when he has exhibited similarly unacceptable behavior. Unfortunately, the group's attack on homophobia could only be understood by many of us as an endorsement of that individual...