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...freshmen, who are usually forbidden to drive on campus, roughly one out of three U.S. collegians has a car. But the pattern varies widely. Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists. At M.I.T., some students park in a remote lot, heft bicycles off the roofs of their cars, pedal the remaining two miles to class...
...Weaker Sex. Northwestern University Law Professor Jack Coons, who readily admits that he is personally prejudiced against women lawyers, suggests that such qualms today stem largely from the fact that men's egos are more easily bruised. Their resentment of female competition, he says, "might be fear of the embarrassment of being beaten by a woman in a toe-to-toe struggle. Men are the weaker sex in terms of pride. In medicine, everyone wants the same result. In the law, someone has to lose whenever a case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work...
...H585, which would direct the MDC to give first attention to the improvement of Alewife Brook Parkway in northwestern Cambridge, while leaving any improvements on Mem Drive to the agency's discretion...
Nearly one hundred schools from across the country will attend the tournament, but representation will be heaviest among Western and Southern schools. Texas University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, will be among the school's present...
...shorter, lighter (25 Ibs.) foam-and-fiber-glass "natural," designed for easy maneuverability and ordinarily used in smaller waves. Each surfer got seven tries. Cabell rode four of his waves almost half a mile clear in to the beach, catching each looming 25-footer off Makaha's northwestern tip, standing up for 300 yds., dropping prone as it dissolved to foam crossing a reef, then rising again as the wave formed again for the final 400-yd. sweep to shore...