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LAST spring's Undergraduate Council was a model of incompetence. It botched resolutions on bringing the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) back to campus, as open meetings turned riotous. It botched an ill-conceived Suzanne Vega concert, losing more than $20,000 and potentially undermining their financial security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Than Zero | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...took the reigns of power from former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 in the wake of nearly riotous student protests which brought the University to a stand-still in the late 1960s...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Wisdom Dispensed From Mount Harvard's Peak | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...riotous bloom of people power, Chinese-style, that took hold of Beijing last week began as a movement almost exclusively of students. But in one of those extraordinarily rare and historic occasions -- it was Karl Marx who gave such moments the classic definition "revolutionary praxis" -- a kind of instant solidarity appeared last Wednesday. It bound together the disparate groups -- students, workers, professionals, academics -- whose union China's leaders had long feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Franklin & Marshall courts were hot and the stands were packed with what Coach John Anz called "one of the most disturbing and riotous crowds I've ever seen." But the racquetmen rose to the occasion, silencing the crowd with their style and skill...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: M. Squash Tops F&M, Penn | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

RUMORS. After a meditative family trilogy, box-office champ Neil Simon returns to riotous farce in his 23rd play, at San Diego's Old Globe on its way to Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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