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Even if the confidence her teammates displayed in her ability as a leader came as a surprise, the role is a familiar one. As a co-captain of her high school team in her final two years there, she led the team to the state small school championship both years, a tribute to her leadership skills...
Pending now in the State Assembly is an important bill, S. 1825, The Medical Reclassification of Marijuana. This legislation would make it possible for patients afflicted with cancer or glaucoma to abtain prescriptions for marijuana. Given the testimony of medical researchers as to the relief this drug can provide for some patients, it seems a shame that those patients are barred from relief on account of our society's general disapprobation of non-prescription, non-medical uses of the drug...
Harvard Friends of NORML worked very hard this past spring to win passage of this bill through the State Senate. Unfortunately, S. 1825 faces a tough fight through the State Assembly to reach the Governor's desk. Among the swing votes are Representatives Charles Florio and Michael Lombardi, both serving our district. Readers of The Crimson could swing those votes by writing letters this week to both legislators, urging them to vote...
...occupation and has been actively organizing and conducting preparation sessions around New England, especially in Massachusetts. The response has been overwhelming, almost too much for the fledgling alliance to handle. Affinity groups have sprung up at Boston University, UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Tufts, Brandeis, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Boston State, Worcester State, and Harvard, with contingents coming in from Oberlin, Kent State, and Cincinnati. Boston high school students are also getting involved. Harvard, which was rather poorly represented at the 1977 civil disobedience action, will send five or six affinity groups to the occupation...
...that had been forced out of business by television, but with foresight that soon proved brilliant, the owners had installed an espresso machine, hung up some foreign posters, raised the admission and re-christened it the Studio Theatre. It soon became a haven for arty types from nearby Wayne State University and other hangovers from the "beat" generation. The message here seemed to be that if it was seedy and depressing, it was art, for the film, like the lobby, was dark, dank, and depressing. I left that theatre with an abiding distaste for beautiful, sensitive films, theatres of that...