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...says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...
...future. Right now I'm following the quitter's credo, taking one day at a time. Should I lapse, I have my excuse all planned. Lent will not be lost. As one of my TF's suggested last term when I told him of my intention to quit, if I indulge in cigarettes during Lent, I'll simply be giving up the pleasure of self-denial...
...February 23, two days before Lent, a letter in The Crimson tested my resolve to quit. Brian O'Meara '01 felt compelled to criticize the Undergraduate Council for giving cigars to freshmen who attended the First Year Formal. Citing the possible illegality of the act (not everyone was 18), the universally known fact that cigars are carcinogenic, and the unpleasantness of a smoke-filled ballroom, he urged the Undergraduate Council to refrain from advocating tobacco products. Smoking has become so taboo that even the celebratory cigar meets with indignation. Proud Papas had best content themselves with a stick of Wrigleys...
This diatribe against smoking made me want to light up, to be an iconoclast. But I followed through on my resolution to quit, feeling pangs of solidarity with the smokers I left behind...