Word: phi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sound familiar? No, it's not the Pi Eta Newsletter Incident of last spring. It's the Johns Hopkins Tau Epsilon Phi Newsletter Incident of last week, and it's the big news in Baltimore...
Many readers are ashamed to admit that they could not or did not finish a book. These unfortunates may take comfort from the latest flight into the cosmos of science philosophy (or sci-phi) made by Polish Fabulist Stanislaw Lem. It seems that the day is coming when publishing will proliferate past the vanishing point; individual volumes will be obsolete before they reach the binders, and turning pages will be a literal waste of time. "Are we not threatened with a flood of information?" Lem asks. "Such vastly multiplied content in collision brings no credit to thought, but rather...
...among 1984's 1.37 million graduates, Mario Savio, 41, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, finally earned a physics degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner, 83, was named to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. Foreign-born students, too, went to the head of their classes. New York's City College valedictorian, Chi ("Christopher") Luu, of Viet Nam, entered this country only five years ago, unable to speak English. Commencement speakers, an unprecedented number of whom were...
...breaking up, of being alone--was added the rejection of self and future. I remember trying, for the first time, to live with personal failure. I could not get papers finished before the extensions expired or even begin the reading before the final exam. Others were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, awarded scholarships, admitted to graduate school. I did not understand how they did it. I never suspected, of course, that these were social problems. It was a frightening new experience in which I no longer recognized myself. Drugs were only an aid in the conscious cremation of talent...
Starr graduated summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University in 1970, where he was editor of the Daily Spectator, the university newspaper. He came to Harvard in 1975 as a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows and began teaching sociology as an assistant professor...