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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to legend, Weld has long been plagued by the super-natural. "The story goes that when Weld was rebuilt after burning down in the 1960's, a spirit was bricked in between the walls," said Margaret John, a Weld proctor. "Students often hear mysterious knocking on the walls...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: 'I Saw a Ghost in My Common Room' | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...Electronic Ceremonies," Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Reading Between The Signs | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...September, Laura Zaccaro, Cosima von Bulow and Amy Carter enrolled in college in Providence. If you stuck your ear to the ground, you could hear the rumblings down there...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Newfound Promise in Providence | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...suggestions came at a meeting of the 19-member Faculty Council, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences steering committee, which revived the CRR last spring to hear the cases of some 18 students involved in two anti-apartheid protests. The CRR review will be the council's principal undertaking during the next several months...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: CRR Members Suggest Reforms for Committee | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Reagan does not set the agenda for the court, and justices have to hear cases on issues such as bankruptcy court jurisdiction, assessing legal fees, and complex antitrust, securities, admiralty, and liability issues...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Not a Fifth-Grade Civics Class | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

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