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Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...
Enter Robin Read, the campus judicial inquiry officer, who is long on authority but woefully short on brains. After her Orwellian questions about the possibility of Jacobowitz having "racist thoughts" got her nowhere, Ms. Read drew on her pitifully deficient knowledge of the fauna of the world...
Many conservatives want to decrease crime by increasing the size of police forces, bolstering police resources, and giving police greater legal license to enforce the law. They seek to increase the police's ability to protect the right of citizens. However, a police force which would have near. Orwellian power over individuals in the community. A government controlled police state would preserve freedom at the cost of freedom. Such a prospectus perhaps funk, but it is not satisfactory...
Ross Perot returned to the airwaves Sunday night, continuing his endless presidential campaign and spreading his egomaniacal brand of Orwellian doublespeak. What makes Perot even more frightening than Big Brother, though, is that when Boss Ross describes his demagogic and self promoting propaganda as "democracy," the crowd goes wild...
...take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard Jeffries? Hans Bader Second-Year Law Student