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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling, branding is looked down upon today." Gary Ausman, assistant director of student services at the University of Washington, agrees: "The decline in hazing is coming from the kids themselves. No amount of pressure by the school, the law or parents would stop it, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death of a Fraternity Pledge | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Lifson's work is among the most recent in the show. Distressingly, the dates of most of the other stuff reveal Faculty '76 to be a collection of artifacts. Perhaps the demands of teaching interfere with practice, but whatever the reason, drives home the point that the VES staff hasn't been producing much art worth exhibiting recently. Unquestionably they are a bunch of talented people, but what has happened to their creativity here? Faculty '76 shows artists institutionalized into Harvard professors. Trying to prove them still artists, the show is unfair to them both as practioners and professors...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Faculty '76 | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Hancock is a complex pianist; a pioneer in electric piano who earned his reputation on the acoustical ivories. He is topnotch on both, but I have always preferred his soft Maiden Voyage stuff to his more recent-jazz synthesis. But I'm in the minority on this point...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: For Three Days Boston Becomes The Jazz Capitol of the World | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

People are always talking to Frank Zappa about the perverse things he's allegedly done, but nobody ever seems to get around to what's really important--the varying tonalities of different bongo drums, for example--the stuff that the guy's seriously interested...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: ROCK | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Muhammad Ali will not show up to priouette on the Watson Rink ice. Instead, championship skaters will cavort up and down the frozen stuff. Some the world's best figure skaters will be at the show, including Kent Wiegle and Judy Genevese, the current United States Silver Dance Medalists...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

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