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But that is a pitiful best hope, and the University knows it. As a 1983 Faculty Council report noted, "The College needs to provide [transfers] with as quick and effective an integration as possible, which means House living for most students."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In From the Cold | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

"I'm asking for cooperation, a team effort to save lives," he says. "I don't want to be melodramatic, but there's nothing more pitiful than seeing someone's brains spreadout out under a truck just for not thinking just for being stupid."

Author: By Miliann Kang and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Strikes Against Bikes | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

It was 7:30 a.m. before fire fighters could get the flames sufficiently under control for the first rescue workers to enter the devastated area that its people call San Juanico. They found corpses carbonized in pitiful gestures of self-defense. Some were huddled together; others lay alone in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Fire in the Dawn Sky | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

"People just really didn't know the numbers were as pitiful as they were," he said. "There are no Black junior faculty this year.... This is an insult.

Author: By Elizabeths. Colr and Charles T. Kurzman, S | Title: Minority Student Protesters Rally for Third World Faculty | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

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