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LAST WEEK freshmen chose their roommates and turned in their rooming group forms. House-mania '87--the now three-week ordeal of selecting a place to live for the next three years--has only just begun. It's a seemingly endless process that forces freshmen to spend their time choosing houses instead of choosing majors and studying house stereotypes instead of studying for midterms...
...feminist interpretation of Monroe's life. Barris' photographs show us a playful woman who loved to drink champagne and run on the beach. The chapter titled "Fathers and Lovers" is a gossipy look at her love life, "The Woman Who Will Not Die" attempts to decipher the enduring mania for Marilyn, and "Who Would She Be Now?" offers a speculative look at what Monroe would be like if she were alive today...
MacDonald Mania hit a high point before Saturday's Vermont game. At that time, the junior left-wing was leading the nation with a 1.45 goals-per-game average. He was shut out in the Catamount contest, but came back to notch two assists in the RPI game. The Mequon, Wisc. native's name is being mentioned prominently as a Hobey Baker Award candidate...
...blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind us of the real continuities of visual culture...
...middle of the third period of Saturday's game, the Minnesota radio announcers found themselves mired in the midst of some marvelous MacDonald Mania, thereby muffing the call on what was apparently Scott McCormack first collegiate goal...