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...University has also been negligent in its silence. Kirkland House did not hold a meeting after students saw Elster arrested Saturday afternoon. House administrators should have, at the very least, made an effort to quell rumors about the incident by giving its students the facts of the situation...Regardless of the outcome of this case...the College should mount an awareness campaign about rape on campus and, like many other colleges, hold mandatory information sessions on date rape for all students...
...substitutes "Riady." A Freudian slip, no doubt. Burton's explanation? "When you've got 150 hours of tape and you've got to condense it down to an hour," he told reporters, "obviously you're going to do some things that some people are concerned about." Whether that will quell the demands for his resignation from the chairmanship remains to be seen...
...Massey was quick to quell those concerns...
...unfortunate result of such planned encores is that bad groups often give encores regardless of mediocre audience response. In some cases, groups whose performances merit more than one encore will give only one, conveniently turning up house lighting to quell audience members mid-clap. How better to tell you fans "Sorry, but we only expected one encore. We didn't plan anything else...
...University has also been negligent in its silence. Kirkland House did not hold a meeting after students saw Elster arrested Saturday afternoon. House administrators should have, at the very least, made an effort to quell rumors about the incident by giving its students the facts of the situation. The University's closed-mouth policy has only encouraged further gossip and confusion, rather than providing information and support...