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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's Links Club party had an admision cost, cash bar and transportation fee. The Senior Last Dance is $12.00/person, the Moonlight Cruise is $8.00/per person, and even the talent show is $2.00. Because the senior class committee, which sponsors these parties, does not receive enough funds from the University, they must charge students for each event. I know it is monotonous to list all the figures, but they add up, especially if we tack on the hefty expense of a four year Harvard education...
According to Dean Archie C. Epps III, an investigation would be based on these groups' "hazing" practices, judging them by the Massachusetts anti-hazing statue that went into effect last year. This statute only bars, "brutal treatment or forced physical activity...which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress...
...fourth novel came bouncing back from publishing houses 13 times, and how two of his earlier books, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, seemed doomed to remain a dyad rather than parts of the trilogy their author had planned. Enter a deus ex machina in the person of Saul Bellow, a Nobel laureate, no less, who administered a scolding to those who had rebuffed Kennedy's manuscript and thereby inaugurated a streak of magic. When Ironweed finally appeared in 1983, it won a fistful of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a sale to Hollywood...
...person who witnesses and reports all this is Daniel Quinn, an orphan approaching his 15th birthday who works for the roguish John the Brawn. This night is the making of Quinn and his book, for it is then that he falls helplessly in love with Maud and launches himself on the adventures that he will gradually learn to capture in words. "Quinn," he asks himself at one point, "when will you become wise, or even smart?" Quinn's Book provides the answer...
...responsibility of the professional community to speak out against all of Reagan's idiocies, including the apathy and mysticism now sapping our country's strength. Nor is it simply the duty of the media to carry this message, though they have so far failed in that task. Every rational person must join in a battle, in our schools, in our legislatures, in our national priorities, between reason and unreason, reality and fantasy. The foolish, stubborn old man who leads the opposing side must go, and all his ilk with him. We will never be able to confront our difficulties squarely...