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...course, the circumstances that necessitate the construction of a student center have been around for a long time and the Administration has consistently refused to budge. So, what's so special about this latest drive? Most importantly, it's better organized than past efforts. Last Thursday a sparsely-attended planning meeting was held during which a four-point list of objectives was announced. This list includes the demands that the College submit a student center as one of its priorities for the next capital campaign, that a time-table be established, a planning committee formed, and an architect be hired...
Those of us currently at the College will probably never enjoy a student center. Even if this latest push is successful, construction simply will not be done in time. But, we can think of no better legacy to leave upcoming classes than prospects of a victory in the continuing battle to improve student life on this campus...
Case in point: the silence that has greeted the well-documented reports of human-rights abuses in the U.S. that Amnesty International USA has been issuing since last fall. The latest installment--a horrifying account of the treatment of female prisoners--is due this week. According to AIUSA, such barbaric practices as shackling female prisoners even while they are giving birth, along with rape and other sexual assaults by both guards and male inmates, have become commonplace as the female prison population has nearly tripled since 1985, to 138,000. But there has been only sporadic press coverage...
Medical science is learning that sex does make a difference. Men's and women's bodies each have their own health problems, react differently to drugs and often require different treatments. We bring you some of the latest thinking...
...proof that nothing in American culture ages as well as icons and punch lines. Currently her single Believe is No. 2 on the Billboard charts and "Cher hair"--ironed flat, middle parted--crowns trendsetters everywhere. Even contemporary designer Tom Ford of Gucci, Cher reports, told her she inspired his latest '60s-inflected collection. The multimedia onslaught will continue when her film, Tea with Mussolini, starring Dames Judi Dench and Joan Plowright, opens in the spring. Cher admits to being awestruck by the titled ensemble. "When you get around them, you don't care who you are, you're just boring...