Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel Sheinberg '91 is an Applied Math concentrator who's a Thursday night "regular." "I was actually working the very first SafeStreets shift in which someone actually called," says Sheinberg. "In the beginning, all our business came from walk-ins who stayed at the Science Center late to work...
...seven-nights-per-week volunteer organization recruits by word of mouth, with students signing up for an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift about once every two weeks. SafeStreets' current roster of volunteers now stands at about...
...program, however, has met some criticism, particularly from students and higher education officials. One major criticism suggests that the proposed shift in student aid allocations runs counter to the ideals established by the Civil Rights movement, which allowed everyone to have an equal opportunity to afford college. Daniel Baer concludes in a Crimson editorial that "the Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson...
Their concern, expressed in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, is based in part on the apparent spread of the disease from homosexuals to heterosexuals. This shift will put far more people at risk of AIDS...
Most Western economists think the Soviet restructuring will take as much as a decade to start showing results, since the shift in approach really amounts to a second industrial revolution. The old ways of doing business will be just as hard to replace as the rusting machinery. "It is not that they aren't going to make some progress, but it's much more difficult than starting out with a clean slate," says John Hardt, a Soviet specialist at the Congressional Research Service...