Word: theban
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Other numbers, though, seemed to promise theadministration at least limited success. 21percent of respondents said they approved of theban on alcohol at official undergraduate partiesand 41 percent approved of the university's pledgeto more strictly enforce state and Penn liquorregulations...
...McCarthy said she is optimistic that theban will encourage students to quit smoking. "Itwas small things that prevented me from becoming asmoker," she said. "This could be one of them...
Members of the AIDS Action Committee stood in arow, holding up signs reading "Shalala: Lift theBan" and "Clean Needles, Stop AIDS...
...laughter was inappropriate, though. Cadmus (David Gullette '62) and Tiresius (Bashir Salhuddin '98) are both Theban wise men and comic duo. Their stichomythic exchanges even suggests lighthearted pastoral, but both are still capable of a rich gravity. I only thought that Cadmus' portentous admonition to Pentheus (of the fate of Acteon, ripped apart by his own hounds-Cadmus' own great-nephew!) was too droll...
...Once Clinton got elected, people thought thatClinton would lift the ban, because he promisedduring the campaign," says Lin, who criticizesRudenstine for the delay in cutting financial tiesto the MIT program this year. "Then, last summer,when people saw that he wasn't going to lift theban, momentum picked up again...