Word: osterberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a statement about waste in U.S. society, Economist David Osterberg, 35, of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, moved into a chicken coop nearly two years ago. The quarters are small (9 ft. by 12 ft.) but cheap: $40 a month for rent and electricity. Osterberg installed a glass skylight, insulation and not-so-spartan furnishings, including a stereo, color television, refrigerator, telephone, toaster oven and several Persian rugs. Says he: "Living this way makes me feel that at least I'm not part of the problem...
...county health board is trying to evict Osterberg from his home, maintaining that the coop is too small and too primitive for human habitation because it has no toilet or running water. Says County Health Director Alfred Ahern: "You can't live like Pappy did on the frontier." But Osterberg argues that the absence of running water is no health threat because he uses the bathroom of a college building five blocks away. He has no intention of flying the coop, and is appealing the eviction order in court...
...song begins with a short finger-popping catalogue of the whereabouts of the boys since the band split up. A raspy but bell-like guitar melody launches a well-structured ballad of alienation. "What happened to James?" "He's gone straight." states the prologue. But Iggy (a.k.a. James Osterberg) has lost his voice with the demise of the band...
...Kenneth Osterberg, director of undergraduate financial aid at Columbia, said yesterday Columbia probably will not implement such a program. For Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial difficulties in recent years, it is a matter of deciding "how you are going to use your own institutional resources," Osterberg said. Columbia probably needs tuition revenue now, rather than in eight years...