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...advice when it is given in the spirit of truly wanting to improve the efficacy of the Undergraduate Council. However, respectable, well-reasoned suggestions lose their credibility when they are surrounded by sarcasm and petty name-calling. There is no reason to include phrases like "every resume-stuffing Gov jock" and "bumbling tradition." The editorial failed in relaying its key points to many students and especially UC members who where simply put off by the first few paragraphs; unfortunately, the editorial succeeded in perpetuating the senseless and detrimental antagonism between the UC and The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Stop This Senseless Bickering | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...tried to believe that the council gets bad press from most undergraduate publications simply because there aren't enough seats for every resume-stuffing Gov jock...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Inside the UC | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...these enlightened days, such japes are saved for Dan Quayle. But they could apply as well to a movie like POINT BREAK. No picture could be handsomer. The camera moves with bold, often devious assurance; action sequences are as sleekly muscled as the torsos of the film's jock hero (Keanu Reeves) and surfer villain (Patrick Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Board Stiff | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

Indeed, Kirkland House's sweatshirt makes no apologies for its jock stereotype. And Kirkland is not the only house well known for its distinctive character...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Changing House Character | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...yells a skeptic. Don't be so sure, Strauss replies with a knowing twinkle. Bush would rather be known as the first President by acclamation since Washington than as the guy who foisted Quayle on the G.O.P. in '96. And instead of campaigning for months, our First Jock can spend all his time on tennis, golf and the Cigarette boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Can't Beat Bush . . . | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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