Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere at Passim is Bohemiam, sophisticated, and collegiate. By day old people with beards sit and smoke pipes, middle-aged people with beards sit and read Sartre, and young people sit and grow beards. Unless, of course, they're women--in which case they do the above without the beards...
...another--came down to what the Faculty believed was more significant: the students' seizure of University Hall or the police bust. The conservative caucus was split on the bust ("Some of us believe it was unwise. Some of us believe it was unavoidable though regrettable," one of their resolutions read), but all its members agreed that the overriding issue was the SDS's unwarranted seizure of a University building...
...read with some dismay the recent letter to The Crimson signed by a dozen teaching fellows in Government (April 23, 1979). The authors of this letter urge students and faculty neither to boycott classes nor, presumably, to engage in any demonstrations organized in whole or part by the Coalition for Awareness and Action. Why? Because to do so would be to tacitly accept their "irresponsible accusation" about American society as well as "the bad judgment it encourages...
...more directly to say about the way the University runs," Levin says now, and the report echoed his, and other committee members' convictions. "We are persuaded that present arrangements for exchange of ideas between students and faculty on matters of common educational concern leave much to be desired," it read, and it goes on to envision a set of student-faculty committees as forums for open discussion of issues affecting student life and education. The Fainsod Committee thus called for a student voice in shaping policy related to student housing, extracurricular activities, and broad educational policy, but it specifically rejected...
...busy thinking up baseball fairy tales for children. He is working on one about a boy from the Bowery and his dog who both make it to the majors and another in which balls, bats and gloves come alive. "I'm sure lots of people want to read the other type of story," says Tug. "But I want to present some positive things that kids can grow around." And maybe make more appearances on the literary mound than the other type guarantees...