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Although the bitter cold hasn't affected this area, Oregon, like other Northwestern states, is facing a weather crisis: a lack of rain. A state that is renowned for rain and lush green forests, a state that warns motorists of dry spots in the road, and bicycle riders not to fall off because they might drown, is facing drought. Let's hope that normal weather conditions return soon, so that "the Big Drought" won't be a future cover story...
...civil rights marches of the '60s? A few people insisted that Roots' impact would be transitory. Said black New York Representative Charles Rangel: "It helps people identify and gets conversations started, but I can't see any lasting effect." Black Literature Professor Leon Forrest at Northwestern University believes that if the show had been televised during the ferment of the '60s, it might have served as a catalyst. "But we are now in a period of some apathy and inwardness...
...manner of the Miss America contest, the runners-up were then announced-Carnegie-Mellon and Northwestern. And the winner? Cornell. Much cheering and drinking of toasts. Gary Orosy's idea had been a winner -almost. He did not get a job offer...
...business schools had higher reputations than theirs. Thus the great idea: Why not invite the others to Ithaca to compete? According to a survey in M.B.A. magazine, business school deans ranked the top nine in employment value as Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Wharton School of Finance, Michigan, M.I.T., Carnegie-Mellon, Northwestern and Dartmouth (Cornell tied for 14th). Harvard loftily declined to compete, and Stanford said Ithaca was too far away, but the others all agreed to send four-member teams...
With Orosy acting as M.C., Northwestern led off. It had proposed a long-term solution-expanding paper deliveries into neighboring communities -but its defense seemed perfunctory. When one judge asked a tough question, nobody knew the answer. Wharton's faculty adviser, Jules Schwartz, smiled contentedly and wrote on a slip of paper, "They've been had. Our guys are going to be more sharkish." Dartmouth was up next, and Curtis Welling, who already has a law degree, gesticulated in his best courtroom manner as he defended its rather undefined proposal to "establish a long-range planning committee." Judge...