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...wall of the public registrar's office in the village of Campogalliano (5½ miles off the main road from Modena to Bologna), hangs a large portrait of Garibaldi. From under beetling brows, the old revolutionary soldier looks down on two municipal workers: Ostilio Iotti, 26, whose wife is rich but not pretty, and Santina Caffani, a widow of 30 or more. Together they keep the village records and accounts. Last summer a rumor sprang up that Ostilio and Santina were more to each other than coworkers; the sofa in the registrar's office was often mentioned...
...Santina are Christian Democrats. The village mayor, councillors and all the other officials are Communists. They decided to get rid of Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...
...they are I-A, and who were in the upper half of their class during their previous college year (Note: This excludes Freshmen, who have no previous college year unless they are repeating. Graduate students use their last undergraduate year), may request a statement to this effect from the Registrar of the College (University Hall B). (Note: Graduate students from other colleges must obtain this statement from their own college), and send it to their local boards requesting that they be placed in deferred Class II-A. This may or may not be granted at the discretion of the local...
...Already, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 reported, six students have officially left College to enlist; and it is understood that about 12 more are about to do the same. The College lost fewer than 20 students to the draft over the summer, and, under law, no more students can be inducted until June (providing they request postponement). But many will probably go then, and at the moment the registrar's office can make no guess as to what that number will...
...order to help defray its operating expenses of $19,000,000 a year, Columbia had to raise student tuition fees by a third in 1949. However the registrar recently released figures indicating a five percent drop in the enrollment since last year. Because of the draft, the college expects to lose 20 percent of its enrollment next year. A further financial loss has resulted from a decrease in endowments while costs and salaries continue to rise...