Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, 36, pro basketball star and onetime college dropout, proudly accepted both an honorary degree and a hard- earned baccalaureate. Said Dr. J of the latter: "I needed that to fulfill a promise I made to my mother." And at Georgetown University in Washington, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reminded law school graduates that there are other promises--like public service--to keep, despite the temptations of paychecks for "more than you are worth...
...also Harvard's leading scorer and Most Valuable Player this year. A native of the Pacific island of Guam ("Guam is Good" reads her favorite sweatshirt), Ysrael was a member of the all-Guam swimming, softball and basketball teams, though she claims she is "really bad" at the latter two sports ("They were desperate for people," she explains, "that's why they picked me.") The English concentrator and Eliot House resident, who plans to return to Guam eventually, will spend her next two years at Oxford on a Rotary scholarship...
...inconservatism and Ronald Reagan," Kenworthy says."I had thought that having a strong nationaldefense was a fine idea, but I shifted toward aliberal view because I weighed the human lossversus the increased efficiency and protection ofAmerican interests that are so much a part of theconservative ideology." During the latter part ofsophomore year, he came increasingly to view theGovernment Department as too conservative...
...LATTER is true, then the University should consider a thorough revamping. But if that's not so, and the letter is just an example of the administration's concern that alumni can't vote without someone to tell them which lever to pull, then Derek Bok needs to be instructed of his error. Maybe then such paternalistic, unilateral decision-making will be avoided in the future...
Wallace Keith Joyner, nearly 24 but as callow as a bat boy, is the latest contribution from Brigham Young University to the world's sweatshops. Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon and Boston Celtics Guard Danny Ainge may be hard to think of as latter-day saints, but Joyner is easily pictured on the side of the Angels, a paragon on the order of Atlanta Outfielder Dale Murphy. The gray manager of the Angels, Gene Mauch, 60, says, "Joyner has a graceful way about him, at bat, on the field and in the clubhouse...