Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) last week started removing asbestos from a water cooling tower on top of the Science Center as part of an ongoing crusade against the cancer-causing substance...
...Harvard administration seems to want either speech without disruption or no speech at all. But paradoxically, this ivory tower attitude has become a major obstacle to freedom of speech on campus. Not only are speakers prevented from finishing, but protestors are often prevented from excercising their right to protest. Worse still, the administration blames these speech endings on student protestors rather than accepting the responsibility itself...
...results of GSAS's efforts, however, will be diminished if minority undergraduates continue to feel there is no permanent place for them higher in the ivory tower. Last spring GSAS began a letter-writing campaign to encourage Harvard minority undergraduates to consider careers in academia. But for many upperclassmen whose post-graduation plans already had been formulated, the letter came too late...
...Photographers Halstead, Dennis Brack, Antonio Suarez and Ken Jarecke, there were hair-raising incidents. Cameras and lenses were put out of action by the rain. During a torrential downpour in Miami, lightning began to flash around the tower that Suarez was perched on to photograph the papal Mass below. He was unhurt, though a TV cameraman was later injured when a bolt struck the tower. In New Orleans, Suarez and Jarecke had to lug 50 lbs. of camera equipment more than two miles in 90 degrees-plus heat from the press buses to a security checkpoint. "Despite all the problems...
...Consider a visit to the spanking-new gallery that opened last week in Dallas. No, it is not just another branch of Century 21, but a dazzling display mounted by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Prospective buyers can browse through glossy pictures of a $13 million office tower in Houston or a 50-room $2 million hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter...