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...dissatisfaction with CRR stems not from its "tainted" origin, but from its shadowy nature. CRR appears to give students some voice in handling of a subset of disciplinary cases, but CRR has in reality no clear jurisdiction and could be easily circumvented. The method of selection of student representatives is haphazard...
...joke is funny an allusion to a certain social subset extant on the Harvard campus, known for their continental accents, upraised and narrow jacket collars, predilection for Neosynepherine-substitute, and tendency to gather at a seedy late-night luncheonette near Adams House. And the joke--and especially the reaction to it--reveals several truths about the Kroks and their appeal...
Waite, who organized this ICCH/4 conference, might be computer-classified in the "skinny, mild-mannered, wears glasses, enthusiastic" subset of the "professor" category. He likes computers so much that he bought an array of Hewlett-Packard hardware (central processing unit, disc drive, digital tape unit, hardcopy printer, typesetter) with his own money. He set the rig up in his house, and he helps pay off the $70,000 cost by running a one-man computer typesetting business on the side. Waite's machines are on display at the conference. A Los Angeles-based colleague named David Packard has been...
...base. But it has already recognized that the base of contributions must be widened. This is precisely the time to appeal to alumnae/I for funds, not on the basis of class identity, but on the basis of loyalty to the college or, if necessary, to an academic or institutional subset thereof. In his Letter to the Faculty. Dean Rosovsky bemoans the fact that the diversity of the students body, the size of the University, and its location in an urban environment have a "fragmenting effect" on the student body. The proposed residential isolationism would only hasten such fragmentation and would...
...depends on maintaining mystery, on refusing to give rational explanations of people and cities, is one which denies the possibilities of objective truth. By using documentary materials to establish a romantic truth. Marker places himself in a diametrically opposite position from the American documentarians. For Marker, truth is a subset of cinema. TERRY CURTIS...