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...Faculty Council will consider the measure, which was passed in January by the Undergraduate Council, on March 23. If the committee approves the funding hike, the full faculty will most likely rubber-stamp the decision next month...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Faculty Steering Council Will Weigh UC Fee Hike | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Hell Camp | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...still undecided about what I'll study," said Weiss. "I am interested in modern European social history. I'm mainly looking forward to the opportunity to explore over there." During her vacations, Weiss would like to hike and cycle around Great Britain and France and to travel in India and the Middle East, she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Seniors Win Fiske, Harvard Scholarships | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...Bush basked in the afterglow of victory, he once again diluted his p.r. triumph with remarks that would be more appropriate for an overeager Boy Scout who had just won a survival-hike merit badge. At a chili lunch in Worland, Wyo., he told an appreciative audience, "I need combat pay for last night, I'll tell you." To a high school chemistry class in Cheyenne, he described live television: "You know, it's Tension City when you're in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bushwhacked! | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...effort to create an image of Cineplex Odeon as the class act of exhibitors, Drabinsky has spent $30 million spiffing up his 30 Manhattan venues. But he has earned at least that much in negative press with the ticket hike and with last September's shuttering of the Regency, the city's treasured revival house. There was a rally and a petition with 30,000 signers. To Drabinsky, the protesters were "publicity seekers" and their pleas "absurd." He plans to showcase revivals at a smaller midtown theater. "We made the Regency a lot newer, and it will gross almost four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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