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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Bowersock has said that the proposed changes in Advanced Standing will not be brought to the faculty until CUE has reached a consensus regarding them. The issue is on the agenda for CUE's next meeting. Your ERG reps would like you to know both sides of the issue, and are anxious to hear student opinions. Steve Gold '80 [or '81] ERG rep, Quincy House

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advanced Standing Program: Playing with Numbers and the Core | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...commandant Reid seems numb to the entire situation. The pale blue walls in his airconditioned office near the camp's entrance are peeling and Reid has been working at Sham Sui Po long enough to know his routine. He takes a long puff on the first of a string of cigarettes and leans back to describe the camp. His voice is as disconnected from what it is saying to you as the camp is from the swankiness and luxury of the Peninsula Hotel--a 15 minute ride away...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Judging from your article "Net Loss" [Sept. 3], it is quite obvious that your ECONOMY & BUSINESS reporters may know the size and bounce of the economy, but not of racquetball. Racquetball is more like handball or squash than tennis. It is played with a smaller racquet and faster ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Waite, undiscouraged, says that in 1968 he became the second classics student at Harvard to use a computer for Ph.D. thesis research. Now, Waite adds, it is "not outlandish, though still not common" for a Ph.D. candidate in classics to use a computer. There is still resentment though: "I know of humanities departments in which you would not get tenure if you did use computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hanover: SAS and Synclaviers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...merely training Cubans, or did it have a combat role? Did its presence represent a Soviet gesture to support Castro's maintenance of 40,000 Cuban soldiers in Africa? Was it guarding Soviet information-gathering installations that eavesdropped on the U.S.? And if U.S. intelligence did not know the answers to any or all of these questions, why could it not find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cooling the Cuba Crisis | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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