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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strangely, my name crops up where you would never expect to find it. Granted, I never find a Sugi mug or keychain or for that matter, a Sugi anything in the card store aisle with all the name merchandise. (There are about a zillion variations of the name Alissa, though. Alisa, Alysa, Alyssa, etc.) But there's a restaurant near Fort Lee, N.J. with my name. I've never actually been there myself, but a friend handed me an advertising card. "Fine Japanese Cuisine...Sugi features Six Tatami Rooms accommodating up to 20 people." What? There are at least...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Min-utes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate"(effeme) or "fuck them...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: So You Wanna Be an MTV VeeJay Too | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...without her spikes. Many have argued that the existing policy privileges the LGBT community, at the expense of ROTC, committing "ideological" discrimination. Quite the contrary. Nondiscrimination policies protect specific classes of people for good reason: to prevent oppression. Nondiscrimination policies require the ethical courage to limit organizations which, no matter how noble we imagine them to be on other fronts, violate the principles of our community...

Author: By Michael K. T. tan, | Title: The Council Is Out of Order | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...agree with the staff's underlying assertion that blocking group size should remain a matter of student choice. But for this very reason, we are wary of their implicit conception of an "ideal" blocking group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep it Nebulous | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

NATURAL RIGHTS AND WRONGS What is the life of a spotted owl worth? Maybe it's a matter of your personal values. Click on the Environmental Ethics website at www.cep.unt.edu for background on this wonky field and information about related books, journals and academic programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLICK HERE: The Web's Wild World | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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