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...interests represented should have a visible impact on the quality of student life. The Undergraduate Council should make tangible differences on campus that people can see--not actions that affect only those in countries thousands of miles away. The Shell Oil debacle attempted to help the oppressed workers of Nigeria, but ended up only squandering time the council could have used to plan a dance, or sponsor a comedy show. Much irrelevant legislation last year undermined the many positive accomplishments of the council and destroyed its legitimacy before the administration, the faculty and the student body...

Author: By Justin E. Porter, | Title: What Does the Undergraduate Council Do, Anyway? | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

Among this year's fellows is philosopher Wande Abimbola, the former Majority Leader in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, | Title: DuBois Institute Names 23 Research Fellows | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

MOST CORRUPT 1. Nigeria 2. Pakistan 3. Kenya 4. Bangladesh 5. China 6. Cameroon 7. Venezuela 8. Russia 9. India 10. Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Thomas was born in Florida, but she grew up in Nigeria (ages 4-8), Senegal (ages 8-14), and Maryland (age 14 to the present day). Her mother, who is second generation Danish and "more American than anyone I know," lives in Maryland, while her Nigerian father lives in Uganda. She has three siblings, to whom she is very close. Tobin is her 16-year-old younger brother ("He's a hottie," said one of Thomas's friends). Jessica, her 22-year-old older sister, graduated from Stanford last year and now lives in Maryland. Justin, her 24-year...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Not Exactly Miss Manners | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

When he was ten years old, Laitin spent his fifth-grade year in Barcelona where his father, a science professor at the University of Chicago, was working. Laitin also spent a year in Nigeria when...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Sailing Off Into the Unknown | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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