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Nearly 50 percent of undergraduates believe that senior tutors or assistant deans will not find out if they seek medical treatment at UHS, even though it is UHS policy to always inform administrators when a student is admitted to Stillman Infirmary or any other hospital...
...Court TV needs a tag line, they can call it "Survivor 1.5." In an apparent effort to confirm yet another of America's stereotypes about lawyers, Stacey Stillman has reacted to losing the first "Survivor," months after the fact, by suing. Specifically, Stillman alleges that two other contestants - Sean Keniff and Dirk Been - were spoken to by producers, which led them to vote her off the island, which in turn meant the contest was rigged. (Keniff has denied the charge; Been neither confirms nor denies...
...Stillman's charges have their strengths and weaknesses. Certainly it often seemed like things fell a little too perfectly in place for the producers the first time around - the fact, for instance, that two competing tribes lost their members at more or less the same rate. On the other hand, Stillman's postulate that CBS wanted to keep crusty septuagenarian Rudy Boesch to hang on to older viewers - the most actively despised demographic in television - is weird, to say the least. (CBS bought "Survivor" largely to win a younger audience.) Being a rank legal amateur, I'll leave...
...1950s scandals, as befits a simpler time, involved simpler skulduggery. It was cut-and-dried: contestants were given answers and were ordered to win or to lose. Stillman's claim, even if proven, shows something much fuzzier. We're not talking about Mark Burnett and Jeff Probst dumping out the ceremonial conga drum and stuffing it with "STACEY" ballots in their own handwriting. The notion is that producers indirectly - through pleading? Coaxing? Leading interview questions? - caused contestants to change their minds. Which led them to vote differently. Which led to contestants' being voted off in a different order. Which...
...whom the public down in one gulp. Survivor spins off a new star every week as the contestants are voted off; each makes a weeklong round of the press--all to stoke the ratings of the bastards who eighty-sixed them!--and then flames out. "I'm so tired," Stillman said the day after her expulsion aired. "I've done about 40 interviews...