Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition building dominated this weekend's network of minority conferences, then curriculum change provided the most immediate outlet for the nascent cooperative activism. While longer-ranging social change clearly occupied the minds of all delegates, immediate boosts in women and minority faculty recruitment and ethnic studies course offerings filled the agendas for all five minority groups. The capacity crowd in Paine Hall and the unanimity of support for the aims testify to the urgency of the demand, leaders...
...fire assault rifle into a crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...says Project Literacy Co-Chair and tutor Aaron Richmond '91. "There's just a huge group clamoring to get in, learn what they need and then move on. The practical reality is that they at least need the minimum training; it's sad that we can't keep them longer...
Boone said he regretted having to limit enrollment but said that the quality of the course would suffer otherwise. "When you have too many students, the student is no longer a factor," he said, adding that going to lectures would start to resemble "going to the movies...
...longer. With freezing rain and slush, winter finally announced its return from vacation. Although there has not been a blizzard yet, this frigid weather seems to be a good omen for the future...