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...week of classes are cancelled when record red-dotting--a full two-thirds of the student body fail to meet tuition payments--plays havoc with normally well oiled registration machinery. Holyoke Center officials attribute the unprecedented number of late payments to steeper tuition costs and "the spirit of lawlessness rampant among this country's young...
Dast of various kinds has been rampant in the building since the renovations began a few months ago. But Paul F. Leary, associate director of financial operations, said no one suspected until this week that it would turn into a health hazard...
That was while the club was dropping a team-record 22 losses and while discord ran rampant every time the Harvard squad stepped on the court...
...AFTERMATH of the brutal assassination of Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, a plethora of media coverage has catanulted Indian political and religious issues into the limelight of the international public. Most notably, the current rampant violence between Sikhs and Hindus throughout the country, but particularly in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab, has focused discussion on Gandhi's controversial decision to send the army into the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June to flush out the Sikh extremists there. But such debate has--at least in this country--typically lacked a deeper understanding of India's religious, political and historical traditions...
Thus, in the wake of rampant killings, mounting fanaticism, and reports of the alarming military build-up of the Golden Temple, Gandhi and the center can hardly be accused of intentional brutality in calling in the Indian army. Sikhs and Sikh supporters loudly condemned the army move, outraged by the government's desecration of their holiest shrine. But does this not skirt the sacriligious behavior of the Sikhs in using a place of worship revered by millions as an arsenal and sanctuary for murderers. Furthermore, the charge made by some of Western observers, the New Yorker for example, that Gandhi...