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...with considerable courage, 1,700 people signed a petition asking the regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...
Western governments should press the Soviet Union to respond to President Carter's human rights declaration while they continue to open up trade relations. Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident, told an overflow crowd at Boylston Hall Auditorium last night...
Boston University is one of the area schools hardest hit by overenrollment. This year it has about 600 more students than it had expected early last spring. To house the overflow, the school has acquired three nearby apartment buildings...
Although overenrollment at Tufts is not as bad, overflow students are worse off. About 160 Tufts undergraduates are spending this year in a stripped-down section of the Sheraton Commander Hotel north of the Cambridge Common--more than a mile from their campus. Tufts has leased out the hotel rooms for the whole academic year, and the hotel management has removed its furniture for the duration...
...longer are some freshmen squeezed into small Quad doubles--those rooms are now singles for upperclassmen. Overflow sophomores from River Houses are no longer placed in Canaday Hall, which now only houses freshmen and is less crowded than in previous years, according to Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College...