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...Yevgeni Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky were Russian poetry's most distinguished ambassadors. This month Yevtushenko, 51, and Voznesensky, 52, are in the U.S. on an unofficial but widely praised visit. Voznesensky, his country's greatest living poet, took the opportunity to accept belatedly a 1984 honorary degree from Oberlin College, where he inveighed against "barbarians of every age," and intoned: "For an artist trueborn/ revolt is second nature:/ he is both tribune/ and troublemaker." Meanwhile, Yevtushenko has been traveling across the country performing an environmentalist "Concert for the Earth" with American Jazzman Paul Winter. Last week both men of Soviet...
...only university battling the rubeola virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, students have been stricken at Oberlin College in Ohio, Ohio State and the University of Michigan. Worst hit of all was Principia College of Elsah, Ill., a tiny Christian Science-affiliated school where at least 96 students have been infected and two have died, apparently from complications. (Rubeola, which tends to be more serious in adults than in children, can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis...
Katharine Hanson, executive director of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education in Cambridge, Mass., calls the proposed reduction in student aid "disastrous." She estimates that 60% of all students receiving federal funds would be affected. At Oberlin College, for example, half of the 2,700 students have guaranteed loans. According to James White, director of financial aid at Oberlin, half of those would be ineligible for borrowing under the new guidelines. As a result of the reductions, says Ernest Smith, director of financial assistance at the University of Miami, "students might start adhering to the 'shop-down' theory, where they...
...There's great experimental value in terms of the composition of cable companies in the country," says Susan Fleischmann, adding that only Davis, Calif. and Oberlin, Ohio, currently have cable franchises that are cooperatives. "It's a real risk, but one that Cambridge should take...
Wesleyan University president Conn G. Campbell drafted the letter. Other signatories include the presidents of Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Yale Universities and of Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Dartmouth, Haverford, Oberlin, Smith, Swarthmore and Williams colleges...