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...Jan. 31, asking for neither forgiveness nor permission, the College introduced a litany of strict new rules on partying, and on the hooch that makes it all worthwhile. House Committees will henceforth not be allowed to serve hard liquor at their Stein Clubs, residents won’t be allowed to advertise their private parties, and gatherings in dorm rooms will have to be registered with resident tutors up to three weeks in advance...
Closer to home, we are bidding farewell to one of TIME's true legends: Jan Simpson. Over the course of her nearly three-decade career at TIME, Jan has held down pretty much every job in every category at the magazine and excelled at each one. Jan came here from the Wall Street Journal in 1979 to be a correspondent in the New York bureau. She was soon posted to Mexico City, where she dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer...
...Jan was also among the first to write about domestic abuse in America and how women are not protected by the courts. She became one of the great Arts editors in the magazine's history--and then made actual history when, in 2002, she was named assistant managing editor, the first African American in that position on TIME's masthead...
...Jan embodies some of the highest virtues of journalism: utter fairness and a strong skepticism, coupled with the ability to praise when praise is due. No one has as little tolerance for cliché or as much appetite for intellectual sparring. Many a bad idea has died at her feet, while countless great ones were born out of her ability to make writers refine their thoughts and search beyond the obvious to explain something deeper and more significant for the reader. In her new life, she plans to see as much theater as she can, spend time with her husband Kamau...
...With reporting by Jan Raath/Nemanwa