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...little pot and belting out Bessie Smith blues ballads (her other idol was Leadbelly) in a competent but slightly affected style. She was into drugs as well as alcohol, but troubled by the fact. By early 1965, she had pulled out and gone home to her father, mother (a registrar at a local business college), and her younger brother and sister. For two years she dabbled at college, and one way or another got enough learning to read Freud and describe herself as a "Scott Fitzgerald freak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blues for Janis | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...sure what the CRIMSON's interpretation of a "battle" is, but it is different from mine. I was under the impression that the Registrar's Office and the Office for Advanced Standing were working in quite good harmony...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber], | Title: The Mail BATTLE? | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

...reporter who came to my office for information and help. My first conversation with him was without the knowledge that he was your reporter. When he returned clearly stating that he was doing a story, I made it utterly plain that the only person who could speak for the Registrar was the Registrar, that the information I had given him was personal advice, and that I was not to be referred to or quoted. All three conditions have been disregarded in your story "Bureaucratic Bungling" in the CRIMSON of October...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber], | Title: The Mail BATTLE? | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

When Harnett's letter to third-year Advanced Standing students was shown to another high official in the Registrar's office, she characterized Harnett's actions as "high-handed" and said, "I thought the Advanced Standing program was set up to give students flexibility. The whole tone of the letter tries to take away this flexibility and builds up tremendous pressure on you to hurry up and get through. "She emphasized that Harnett's letter and his relation with the Registrar's Office "is now a very delicate matter. It was an effort on his part to be helpful...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Advanced Standing Bureaucratic Bungling | 10/2/1970 | See Source »

...unknown, please, explain what the contingency is. The more that I know about the particular problems you are facing, the easier it will be for me to keep a flexible date for your final [graduation] commitment." She emphasized that "the responsibility for the statement about graduation lies with the Registrar." So the battle between these two bureaucratic offices continues unresolved...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Advanced Standing Bureaucratic Bungling | 10/2/1970 | See Source »

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