Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials and private organizations that monitor hate groups point out that the recent violence comes at a time when the membership in fringe cults seems to be declining. The FBI says it keeps a close watch on fewer than a dozen radical-right groups. The A.D.L. estimates that, thanks to stricter state laws, the Klan has declined to about 6,500 members, although the Anti- Klan Network puts the number as high as 9,000. Says Irwin Suall, A.D.L. director of fact-finding: "These terror gangs are resorting to violence precisely because they find themselves politically and socially rejected...
...FACE IT. Eliot House has a lot of final club members and people who went to prep schools. Currier House has a lot of Black students. Kirkland House is great for intramural football and less-than-hot for average GPA; Lowell House is great for Phi Beta Kappa membership and less-than-hot for parties. Adams House's Westmorcty Court and Senior House are splendid and supremely spacious places to live; Mather's low-rise--at least this year--is not. Living at the Quad and having to take a bus to classes is a pain...
...fifth novel, Gail Godwin joined that select circle of critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write for next time, all of them...
Steiker last year organized a petition calling on the Review to change its controversial practice of selecting some of its editors on the basis of their first year grades alone. At the time, Steiker criticized grades as arbitrary and inappropriate criteria for Review membership...
...Crimson last week scratched showdowns with Division III squads Brandeis and New York University after it learned it would lose both its Division I membership and post-season eligibility next season if it played either the Judges or the Violets, Harvard Director of Athletics John P. Reardon Jr. '60 said yesterday...