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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student-run AIDS Education Outreach (AEO)program brought an AIDS victim to speak at theWinthrop House Junior Common Room last night...
...Club attorney Casimir De Rham '46, who is with the Boston firm of Palmer and Dodge, could not be reached for comment. De Rham has refused to speak with the press about the case since Schkolnick filed her complaint in December...
First of all, though I cannot speak for my fellow "Zealots," I, as a Jew, support Israel first and foremost because it is a Jewish state. I have never hidden that fact, nor do I ever intend to. I resent Larew's implication that this position is somehow embarassing or morally reprehensible or that it requires a justification that his non-zealotous position does not. Nobody has the right to claim that somehow I am less of a loyal American because of my commitment to Israel. Every American, regardless of other ethnic or national ties, is equally American. That said...
With more than a million residents of Polish descent, the Chicago area is the unofficial capital of Polonia. Many of the janitors and cleaning women who vacuum and scrub the city's high-rises and the clerks who sell kielbasa and clothing in the shops along Milwaukee Avenue speak little or no English. News about the old country is broadcast in Polish on radio and television and headlined by the daily Zgoda (circ. 15,000) and at least a dozen thriving Polish-language weeklies. The reaction of leading commentators in recent months has sometimes bordered on euphoria. "Events in Poland...
...recently as a month ago, residents spoke only furtively with foreigners, while a pervasive net of state control silenced dissent and enforced Marxist indoctrination of schoolchildren. Last week the opposition New Forum was sifting through official invitations to speak at local factories, while at a "Democracy Kiosk" outside the philharmonic hall, crowds gathered to scribble down addresses and meeting dates for everything from feminist films to university talks on "the collapse of Communism." The Academixer cabaret theater, famed for its political satire, revamps its sell-out show Who's to Blame? every night to keep up with developments. Quips artistic...