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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS)-at an open meeting of Dean May's sub-committee on co-residency yesterday-recommended that the CHUL abandon its plans for making all Harvard Houses co-ed for next year...
...sub-committee ratified the RUS request to extend the deadline for room applications to an undetermined future date because of "the incredible amount of confusion" in understanding the OHUL plan. Dean May said that the sub-committee would have to meet again to consider other proposals suggested...
...documentaries of rock are forced to deal directly with the music's mystique. They can neither elaborate its power as in Monterey Pop , or, as in Groupies , expose it as the nut of sexual exploitation. Nowhere does rock mystification slide over into exploitation more easily than in the groupie sub-culture. The lessons of Groupies are clear from the start. In one of the opening sequences, an ex-groupie says she "balled fifty, maybe a hundred musicians." Then one day she looked at herself in the mirror, "my boobs were hanging out of a low cut dress, and I said...
Most of rock groupie sub-culture is a direct descendant of the "band-chicks" that lived around jazz groups in the forties. The rock lexicon is almost completely derivative of jazz groupies. Plaster-casting comes from a saying out of the "be-bop" era, "Plate you now, cast you later." The word "rig" seems to have originated in the lyrics of the Delta blues singers...
...group. Seasoned executives may be in such short supply that many will postpone retirement. The number of U.S. teen-agers will hardly rise at all by 1980, a fact that may reshape the market for companies that cashed in on rock records and teen clothing during the 1960s. The sub-teen population (ages five through twelve) will actually shrink, cutting into the demand for breakfast cereals, some soft drinks, toys and bicycles. Says Argus Research Corp. Economist Sam Nakagama: "American families can now spend money on themselves instead of their kids, getting rid of a great burden on family budgets...