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...residents. The search for the "right" program has been mirrored in the search for a name. Five years ago the House became the South End Youth Training and Employment Center. With the help of federal money, it ran a morning school and afternoon job training program for over one thousand high school dropouts. Three years ago, the House lost most of its trainees and all of its federal funds to Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), which became Boston's official poverty program. Now the House, privately financed, concentrates on employment counseling, job groups for teenagers, and grocery cooperatives...
Damage was estimated at several thousand dollars. Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said he expected the University's Administrative and Caretaking Department to hold an investigation into the fire's causes...
Indonesia's students helped put Acting President Suharto into power, and since then have eagerly kept an eye on his government. Relations have been fairly smooth; the students have even taken to calling him "Pak Harto"-Father Harto. Last week, however, several thousand students marched on the President's office for the first time since Suharto took over, bristling with anger about the rising price of rice. Suharto, who has always been considered a shy and reticent man, went out to meet them, listened briefly to their complaints and then told them off much as he would have...
Once admitted to a university, a student theoretically becomes a member of the Zengakuren, the national federation of student governments. Actually only a few thousand of the Zengakuren's members are convinced radicals, but they nonetheless constitute a cadre of professional riot organizers, who almost annually create a governmental crisis...
Michael Kapetan deserves recognition for his consistantly good performance. Leonard Lehrman does the never-ending piano number, "And the Same to You," very well. (The repeated insertion of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" into the piano score, however, is tiresome...