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...persuaded the national office in Irving, Texas, to commission a marketing study, which concluded that the Boy Scouts were dangerously out of step with post-1960s America; the public still imagined uniformed do-gooders who tie knots and help old folks across the street. One solution: the Scout Handbook was revised to show more minority scouts in action and offer advice on such off-campground problems as AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, child abuse and how to resist sexual molesters...
...quirky exception has been eminently successful at putting spice in the American reading diet: the Utne Reader, an alternative Reader's Digest stuffed with provocative articles gleaned mostly from the country's left- < leaning and fringe press. Founded six years ago, the Minneapolis-based bimonthly has become a handbook for baby boomers, new agers and whole earthers, as well as the odd eclectic middle-of-the-roader. Says television essayist Bill Moyers, an inveterate reader: "I wish I had invented it. It's sort of like an underground railroad of ideas...
Dingman said that a special handbook on dealing with disabled students was being sent by Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky to all teaching staff...
Among a myriad of little-known postering regulations in the Handbook for Students, the College notes that "Non-recognized groups must obtain prior permission of the Office of the Dean of Students and such permission will be granted only in exceptional cases." In the the past, these rules have been ignored with virtual impunity by everyone from Wellesley sororities and futon vendors to tenants seeking sub-letters. But when members of the then-unrecognized AALARM hung up posters on College property, their flyers were torn down by College officials and members were threatened with disciplinary action for violating the poster...
...experience of governing, the harsh realities of her country's condition and the perspective she has gained as the first of a swelling corps of leaders propelled into authority by people power. For better or worse, she is their role model. She is, in effect, writing the handbook on how to hang on even as she does...