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...memorandum to the rent board. Polvere stated that reconsideration of the earlier decision would open "a Pandora's box out of which would fly many other petitions to reopen cases...
...next? What are we going to do when the cannibals and necrophiles start demanding access to dead bodies? It is time that the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose this type of behavior realize that these so-called closets are not closets at all. They are Pandora's boxes that should remain firmly and forever closed...
...this notion, the meat of Wedekind's sex tragedies, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, has been all but completely lost in Lee Breuer's production of Lulu at the Loeb. Lulu, the angelic witch who seduces men with her blend of whorishness and innocence in the Wedekind plays, has become the eponym for an adaptation by Michael Feingold. Feingold, and the company in rehearsal, have updated the play by translating it to a contemporary landscape. So we get references to the Dalai Lama, Lulu moves on roller skates, Schwartz the painter becomes Carbone the fashion photographer, Rodrigo the acrobat...
...impressive beginning. Of course, the committees still had to grapple with a Pandora's box of problems--bypasses, exemptions, pass-fail options, science requirements, and transfer students, to name a few--but they had two more years to settle them. For the time being, their primary task remained finding new courses...
...student code forbade even movies and the theater. TV made that untenable. Students are now advised to use "discretion" in entertainment. These strictures stir little student resistance; most Wheaton students come from families with similar behavior patterns. Says Deb Diller, 18, a pretty freshman from Pandora, Ohio: "The only thing I'm not allowed to do here that I do at home is dance. If I want to dance, I can dance in the summertime...