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...offer by the Carl's Jr fast-food chain to install a branch in the newly expanded bookstore was rejected last May. The reason was not the quality or price of the chow but student and faculty objections to the conservative views of the chain's owner, Carl Karcher, who financially supports antiabortion groups such as the National Right to Life Action League. To Stephen Balch, Northridge's decision was outrageously intolerant. "You're not talking about Karcher doing anything on campus," he says. "You're not even talking about anything the fast-food chain did as a corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accusations Busybodies: New Puritans Repent! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...unveiling his $12.4 billion tax-and- slash budget. Anticipating that the state's liberal Supreme Court would soon order that aid to school districts be equalized, Florio beat the jurists to the punch by proposing his own plan. "Everyone is a bit shell-shocked," says former Democratic assemblyman Alan Karcher. "He had made a career out of being associated with safe issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Florio: New Jersey's Robin Hood | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf people with the black civil rights struggle in Alabama 23 years ago, Gallaudet Graduate Student Kathy Karcher declared, "This is the Selma of the deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Is the Selma of the Deaf | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...Jersey Speaker of the House Alan Karcher, the fifth IOP fellow, said he has also been concerned with the "people who do not have a voice...

Author: By Andrea L. Roberts, | Title: IOP Fellows Recall Entering Politics | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...sudden love for Mamie, by whom he has another son, but whom he loses to the dissolute Jake Karcher, and the mocking success of the hated "hell-hole," incites him to a deeper love for farm and Georgie. There is a pathetic truthfulness in the father's struggle and efforts to keep his son's attitude like his own when he early realizes that the little fellow is not entirely out of sympathy with the glass industry. He tries to pass this off and the simple defense mechanism in his words "You and me is farmers nothing else" is strikingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE WEEK | 1/31/1934 | See Source »

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