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...turmoil is political in character or international in scope. At Stanford University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
Some faculty members think that the burgeoning student movement is due to prosperity, not politics. One reason protests have revived, suggests Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, is because the economy is healthy. Agrees Berkeley Sociologist Neil J. Smelser: "Students are willing to get into a bit of trouble now because they are confident and don't feel the risk they did two or three years...
...Caltech because he wanted to dabble in science, a minor but persistent interest throughout his life. After teaching at Yale, he took time off to write this book. He is now busy with another work on the history of biology, and prepares promotional material for the science departments at Stanford...
...team has come to know well, the champion of the Ivy League automatically advances to the NCAA tournament, where the Crimson has gone as far as the Round of 16 (against Stanford in 2003). This season, with defeats of teams such as No. 8 Georgia Tech and No. 14 North Carolina and close losses against No. 1 Stanford and No. 2 Northwestern, the hopes of advancement are high...
...points if you wish you had gone to Princeton or Stanford...