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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Jason Salzman, who led the campaign to put the issue on the ballot, said the effort was still successful. "It has aroused some very important political, philosophic, and moral debates about nuclear war," he said. "It was an excellent consciousness-raising technique...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Brown University Rejects Students' Suicide Pill Vote | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

Sophomore Christopher A. Ferguson, who worked with Salzman, said he feels most students voted for the proposal as a symbolic gesture against nuclear war, not because they supported the measure literally...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Brown University Rejects Students' Suicide Pill Vote | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

...proposal has attracted a great deal of news media attention. Salzman complained that reporters have focused almost exclusively on the suicide pills instead of on the larger question of nuclear war, which he called "too philosophical for the press to pick...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Brown University Rejects Students' Suicide Pill Vote | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

...Salzman attacked the letter as condescending to the students who worked on the referendum. "I think it shows that [Swearer] does not take students seriously," Salzman said, adding that Swearer did not send a similar letter explaining the university's position to students...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Brown University Rejects Students' Suicide Pill Vote | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

...economics, bumbling bureaucracy and pointless war proved a bit strong for audiences. A reworked, watered-down Strike Up the Band eventually made it to Broadway, but the original version of the George Gershwin-George S. Kaufman collaboration disappeared. More than a half-century passes. Enter Marjorie Samoff and Eric Salzman, looking for the right play to open their newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 9, 1984 | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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