Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second step involves keeping the issue in the spotlight among the student body, something ethnic studies activists have done poorly this year. Keeping ethnic studies on center stage is important because Knowles' tenure decisions are often based on student demand. The Dean has even said in the past that he will not tenure professors who specialize in the study of ethnicity because there is little demand for such courses...
Students activists have done a poor job of keeping the issue in the spotlight. They need to hold a rally at least once a semester. They need to keep up petition drives, pass out flyers, hold more meetings, panels, rallies and do anything to make sure administrators regularly see ethnic studies in the news...
...gave a rousing call to arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself in a highly comic turn as the servant Launce from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Rifkin shared the spotlight very graciously with his silent partner, the dog Crab, played with impressive fidelity by Rusty, the Lowell House...
...McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier made hundreds of calls around the country to various establishments that sold fertilizer, chemicals, explosives, remote-control switches, racing fuel and 55-gal. plastic drums. Many of these calls were charged to a prepaid phone card issued in the name of Daryl Bridges by the Spotlight, a far-right publication. The FBI maintains this card was actually used by McVeigh and Nichols. McVeigh allegedly used the card to call Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City. Agents have documented McVeigh's and Nichols' travels, and many of the calls charged to the phone card were...
Anthony Rolo, editor of the Circle, a Native-American newspaper in Minneapolis and a friend of Erdrich's, says the couple's relationship began to founder as Dorris sought the spotlight and worked incessantly even as his depression worsened. Rolo says Dorris sometimes took out his depression on his wife: "I'm surprised [Louise] managed to keep her sense of self-worth and self-identity." Erdrich hoped that by separating from her husband, he would be spurred to seek the help he needed. "When she ended it," Rolo says, "she believed she was doing it for his benefit as well...