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...Castro had become something like the Algerian city of Oran that Albert Camus described in The Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went...
...Daniel Oran recently made his case against the current law suit pending in Santa Barbara (November 27), recalling the classical notions of free will, necessity, and choice. He then stretched his argument to include the modern behaviorism of B.F. Skinner, concluding that inherent in the plaintiff's argument exists a contradiction. By that be surmised that tobacco companies should not be held responsible for their product's effects, if they were in fact knowledgeable of the cigarette's effects long before the Surgeon General...
...What Mr. Oran fails to recognize, is that the tobacco companies were not bound to withholding information from the public, like he believes; instead, they had a definited choice. The notion of make as much money as possible or bottom-up financially doesn't apply, when one considers the alternatives open to the tobacco industry...
...three contestants--Gilbert Fuchsberg '85, Daniel P. Oran '87 and Gary D. Rowe '88--and folk singer/Mondale activist Paul Shea received as prizes mock welfare checks, food stamps, and a handful of jeffy beans...
Chadwick Allen '87 was admonished by election officials after Daniel Oran '87 charged him with taking down campaign posters from the walls of Weld Hall. According to Allen, Oran saw one of Allen's roommates taking down a poster. Allen said his roommate apologized after the incident. Oran eventually withdrew the accusation...