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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's giving money to the Student Council. Everyone knows it is a deserving organization, and that it needs money. And, of course, it would make the Deans very happy to know that they are helping students. Students must also be happy at the news that they will no longer be buttonholed and asked for a donation by Council members at registration. Anyway, it was never much fun for the Council to claim to represent the students and then not receive much support from them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Everybody Happy? | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

Although questioning of homeowners might shorten the list of housing available to students, Sarbanes said, "I don't think that for the sake of longer listings we should include landlords who openly discriminate...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: PBH to Fight Prejudice In Room Listing | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...tempting to oversimplify its agencies, seeking a ground on which organized resistance is possible. Like Ahab, these idealists want to grapple with a symbolic embodiment of pervasive evil. They find in the idea of a Communist conspiracy a suitable devil, responsible for the sins of their no-longer Jeffersonian world. States' rights form a barrier against political manifestations of this insidious movement, and traditional values become weapons against social sabotage. Integration, upsetting custom, supported by left-wingers, and enforced by centralizied national power, seems an instrument of the alien interest...

Author: By Claude Nuzum, | Title: The Walls of Jericho | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

Self-determination for the people of Taiwan should be followed by "a gentle indication that we don't think Chiang Kai-shek is ruler of the island any longer," Fairbank advised...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: Students Protest Far East Policy at Adams Meeting | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...ignore all posted signs since they are superseded". They did is directed, only to be dismayed the following morning to find their cars again tagged. It seems the police had failed to also inform them that posted rules again go into effect after 6 a.m. and should no longer be ignored after that time...

Author: By Norman Holly, | Title: PARKING | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

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