Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian government subsidy, and most were enrolled in engineering, business or science courses at Western, Southern or Southwestern universities. Some devout Muslim students have returned home. Others are being lured back by various inducements, including the promise of relaxed admissions standards at Iranian universities. Explains Saied Moezzi, a junior in engineering at the University of Kansas: "For some students, it was like a gold rush. Some activists went home to get jobs with the government. Today a nobody can suddenly become someone. People nobody has heard of are Vice Premiers." A few leftist zealots are returning to bring the revolution...
...many disillusioned students, revolution has replaced one tyranny with another. A junior at the University of Southern California, Said Djabbari, 21, wanted to go back but now has misgivings. "The previous government wielded an iron fist in a velvet glove," he says. "This new regime doesn't give a damn about the glove." Adds a social science student at the University of Kansas: "The Ayatullah sounds exactly like the Shah. Previously, if I opposed the government, I was opposing the Shah. Now they tell me I'm opposing...
...viewing rights committee" was established forthwith, and Yale University Junior Alison Wondriska, 20, took a window-to-window census. Calling on small restaurants and shops as well as firms located in nearby high-rises, Wondriska determined that 1,600 windows had full views of the site. Some people gave even more than their share, and the window tax campaign raised some $8,700 within eight months. Next week Connecticut will celebrate Rededication Day to mark the completion of work on the building...
...baseball, junior first baseman Mark Bingham finished the year as the team's leading hitter, at .403. Bingham also led the Crimson in runs batted in with 36, four short of the Harvard record...
...Junior Mike Stenhouse (.395), Senior Jim Peccerillo (.308) and sophomore Chuck Marshall (.307) followed Bingham in the average category. Peccerillo finished second in RBI's with...