Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I've caught you feverishly cramming for finals and praying that you'll remember those obscure quotes from Plato's Symposium for you Hum 5 midyear, I think it's a good time to step back and really look at this beast called "Reading Period." As I see it there are two issues at hand here. First we need to ask what kind of miserable calender system bestowed such a monster as Reading Period on us undergrads, and second we should wonder whether this animal, since it does thrive among us, serves any sort of useful purpose...
...editor to oversee Voice Managing Editor Marianne Partridge. His choice: Michael Kramer, a New York alumnus and editor and publisher of the journalism review More. Partridge vehemently resisted, and so did the staff, and Kramer backed off. For the future, the highly individualistic staffers took a more concrete step: 120 out of 150 joined up with the paper's first union, Local 65 of the Distributive Workers of America...
...year 1971-72, they had little positive to say. The situation was not one of growth for the department, the department had to focus its energy against the forces in the University who were now attempting to isolate and undermine the department. Suddenly, Afro-American Studies was the step-child no one cared for any longer. It was not a discipline, it should not be a single concentration, it should not be a department, it was not even that great an idea for Black students to study Black people. If the criticisms had been isolated, it might have been easier...
Each forward step in modern technology tends to reduce the difference between the older categories of experience. Take, for example, the once elementary distinction between transportation and communication: between moving the person and moving the message. While communication once was an inferior substitute for transportation (you had to read the account because you couldn't get there), it is now often the preferred alternative...
Chief Asset. Though the U.A.W. will not bargain again with the auto industry until 1979, Fraser will soon face some stiff challenges. He must step up recruitment of new members to compensate for losses that the union has suffered because of automation of car plants and the move of many auto factories to Southern areas hostile to unionism. He also must placate the U.A.W.'s skilled workers, who are clamoring for the right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity...