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Reminiscent of high school student government, the Freshman Council acts as a rubber stamp body for the administration and performs no service for students. A prime example of the Council's ineptitude is its handling of the referendum on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. At Wednesday night's meeting, the Council voted to accept the unclear result of the December 9th referendum as a mandate supporting token freshman representation...
...middle-class family, it is hard to remember that Lima is under curfew after an attempted coup; that rumors of an uprising in Trujillo and the burning of the Sears building in the capital city had reached my ears this morning; and that a week ago, four tanks with rubber treads filed out of the barracks two blocks away headed for the center of Arequipa. No one talks politics at the party. As a university student who had been in Chile before, during, and after the Allende regime told me, "Politically Peru is 20 years behind Chile. Everyone minds...
...like Alice in Wonderland," Stewart says. "Holmes had ordered me to put on the gloves and not to speak to Hughes under any circumstance. Now Hughes had asked me a question, and I didn't know how to make signs that would explain why I was putting on the rubber gloves...
...hair with rubber gloves on!" said Hughes in exasperation. "Take them...
...local newspaper has complained that Moscow's Domodedovo airport -one of four in the Soviet capital-is a marvel of inefficiency where travelers are often greeted with the refrain, "No space, comrades. The aircraft aren't made of rubber, you know." Aeroflot stewardesses seem to be chosen for neither beauty nor efficiency. Refreshments are often limited to candy distributed before takeoff...