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...office for a few minutes to take care of odds and ends. It became clear last week why Lewis, 47, was so diligent. He was, according to Wells Fargo's chairman, Richard Cooley, nursing along one of the biggest bank frauds in history-a $21 million electronic rip-off that first came to light in January when embarrassed bank officials discovered their books to be far out of balance...
...bias that warfare is noble. Slaughterhouse Five. Why Are We In Vietnam?, Apocalypse Now--the realization is dawning that saturation bombing means blowing up every village in a province designated "strategic" by a Pentagon flunkie, and that anti-personnel devices are grenades filled with steel pins designed expressly to rip humans apart. No Thermopylae for us not even any Chateaux Thierry. We read about My Lai when we were nine or ten, and it will take more than the Iranian crisis to make us forget that the ditches in that small Asian town were filled with civilians, with children...
...administration is not the only problem. Students customarily deface and rip down posters for gay and lesbian events. Last spring they hurled taunts, insults and even food at other students announcing glad Day in the dining halls. One student was even attacked--for no other reason than his homosexuality--while cleaning up after a gay/lesbian dance last April. In a community as educated as ours is, this kind of abuse is hard to understand. For a leading university in the United States and in the world, it is unacceptable. It is time for straight people to realize that we must...
...importance of awareness, without which the consumer or emplyee is at the mercy of private business. The field of consumer awareness is a relatively new and fast-growing one. New do-it-yourself consumer guide books spring forth monthly, designed both to alert the reader to potential rip-off situations and to offer well stocked appendices listing where to go and what to do after the fact. One of the best new books around is aptly entitled Fight Back... And Don't Get Ripped-Off by David Horowitz, NBC's leading consumer reporting specialist. The book boasts an exhaustive index...
...student, however, the extent of private industry rip-off is liable to be less serious than for those making their way in the world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people...