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...attention political activists have received on the Brown campus has certainly picked up. A "suicide pill" referendum attracted international media attention to this hilltop university campus last fall as did this winter's citizen's arrest of CIA recruiters by Brown student activists...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Activists Shake Brown | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...Self-interest is the guiding principle," of protest, Katz says. Chris Ferguson, an organizer of the suicide pill referendum goes further. He feels that protest "has to come from within," adding that he believes the activists' "creative protests" get people to understand the personal implication of an issue...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Activists Shake Brown | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...activist Brown students appreciate this type of protest. The suicide pill referendum, "raised eyebrows and got students interested in what is going on," Oliver Known says, Karen Berkelhamer adds, "It was a good statement, it really got the message across...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Activists Shake Brown | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...course there are those things. No one denies that." Dobrynin sugared the pill he wanted Gromyko to swallow. "But it seems to me that Soviet correspondents tend to overemphasize that side of things. They create a mistaken impression of the situation here. You know, when I go home to Moscow, people ask me about America as though they thought it was about to fall apart." He laughed loudly. "Our people should think more realistically. They ought to have more accurate information, not just the exaggerations of hack writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America the Baffling: How the Soviets See It | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Women have had access to the Pill for nearly 30 years, and many now unabashedly woo reluctant dates with phone calls and American Express gold cards. But they are still not sure what to make of sex. On the one hand, they want the freedom to express their sexual needs; on the other hand, they resent the idea that they should "express themselves" after every dutch treat at the Steak 'n' Ale. Calls for the Sensitive Man alternate with pleas for a few good neo-Neanderthals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Finding Trouble in Paradise | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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