Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene switched to President Hackerman, who had been sitting in his office hoping the whole thing would blow over. (I've talked with him on several different occasions, and he's a very nice sort of guy.) That afternoon, while I was in class, about 400 students picked up tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor...
Last Tuesday they bulldozed away everything we had built, but that was sort of expected. I spent half an hour trying to escort the last living thing in Waller Creek past the bulldozer, but it got scared when the dozen snorted, and I finally had to give up. The last living thing was a large old snapping turtle- who looked so very confused...
...will pay those completing the training program "the pay for journeymen painters fixed by the applicable collective bargaining agreement." The students had asked that the pay be "com-parable to that received by outside contracted painters." The Administration said that it could not pay outside rates because, "the same thing would have to be done for journeymen in all other crafts." Universities almost always pay their maintenance crews less than outside rates, the statement said...
...open arms. The same goes for those who can unravel the myriad complexities of national politics and institutions. The former are never forced to write politics and the latter needn't ever have seen a play, let alone reviewed one. You just have to be able to do your thing well. Many members of the University community read Crimson editorials (notice we didn't say they agreed with them), and they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost...
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