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Parents' occupation and family background determine whether a student is working-class, Magali Rivera '84 said yesterday...
When student loan cutbacks begin to affect enrollment, working-class students "will be the first to go," Rivera, who first decided to form the group, said yesterday. She said than many working-class families are dependent on their children to make ends meet. While working-class parents are proud of their children, it is a greater sacrifice to send them to college than it is for their middle-class counterparts, because it is a breadwinner, not just a dependent, who is leaving home...
...Rivera and Kochenburger helped to found the group last spring. They plan to conduct monthly workshops similar to last night's meeting...
...television journalism that the dangers of the star system become most visible. Television frequently has trouble distinguishing between news and show biz. Last week a CBS station in Chicago got into an unseemly row by criticizing the ABC network's 20/20 program and Reporter Geraldo Rivera's use of the "ambush interview"-surprising a journalistic target on the street, with cameras turning. Even when a malefactor has it coming to him, a viewer is left with the impression of a defenseless person's being taken advantage of by privileged characters with mikes and press badges...
Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...