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...streets and hectoring at town planning meetings. They feel they are now wise to the disadvantages such stores bring: increased traffic, air pollution and cannibalization of their hometown retailers. Add modern media savvy to the mix, and you have a group, regardless of their number, that can make a stink big enough to bring them nationwide attention . . . and victory...
...Fred Jewett '57, who said that "this has been part of a long-term project on the part of the department...It's not something that's just come up overnight." Correct, this issue has been around for 21 years; the athletics staff only made a large enough stink about it last semester, though...
Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it, and the multiculturalists and their "coalition for diversity" are waving the same diversionary flag today. As the recent stink over the comments of Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '57 on affirmative action shows us, multiculturalists reflexively suppress discussion about social and educational policies, such as affirmative action, which are premised on the belief that certain groups in society are educationally and economically disadvantaged. Today's diversity proponents favor more symbolic and emotional demands for "representation" in the student body and in the faculty. Contrary to the liberal vision, which takes very...
...women I really can't complain," said Cherylyn Washington '93. "As a guy it would kind of stink. [But] in terms meeting people of the opposite sex, you don't have to stay in the house...
SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...