Word: levins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another member of that section, Lawerence F. Levin '89 said that while his section leader had put little pressure on the students to go out-side, if he hadn't, "it would have been hypocritical because the whole point of the shantytown is for free speech...
...sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member of a fraternity...
...their students, particularly those among the old-line schools of the Northeast, continue to feel that way. Two years ago Maine's Colby College and Amherst in Massachusetts banned Greek societies as "quite anomalous with the spirit of the university," in the words of one Amherst administrator. Adds Levin: "Fraternities provide a model for separatism that carries over into adult life...
...Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, disappeared. In May six assailants snatched David Jacobsen, 54, director of the medical center at the American University, from the campus. Only five days before Flight 847 was commandeered, several gunmen captured Thomas Sutherland, 52, the university's dean of agriculture. Jeremy Levin of the Cable News Network, another American hostage taken in Beirut, escaped in February, eleven months after he was abducted. In March two French embassy officials were abducted in Beirut; in May a journalist and a researcher, both French, were kidnaped...
...politics. Partly to make the point to Washington that Damascus is a useful place to do business in the area, Assad has helped out in previous prisoner situations, notably the release of downed U.S. Navy Flyer Robert Goodman in 1984 and possibly the freeing of CNN Beirut Correspondent Jeremy Levin in February. One possible U.S. favor Assad may have in mind in exchange for his latest assistance: a request for U.S. pressure on Israel to abandon its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon...