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...recent renovations to the Memorial Hall tower are evidence of the fact that the University is spending all around us," said council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01, who hopes the proposed term bill increase will boost student group treasuries. "Unfortunately, all around us isn't good enough...
Though the brownies were free, campaign members encouraged passers-by to donate money for one of two causes, "Bake Sale for a Living Wage" and "Bake Sale for Another Tacky Hollow $4 Mill. Tower...
Finally, a few suggested that we put the thing into an object that the campus will hold as semi-sacred. This could be the base of the John Harvard statue, the tower of Memorial Hall or a metal mold resembling the Eudocimus albus (the North American ibis...
...Mirage, the canals (with gondola rides!) and warm cannolis at The Venetian, the Arthurian legend at Excalibur, the cobblestone streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half-size recreation stands over the Paris hotel); or look out another and see Egyptian pyramids at the Luxor or the Chrysler and Empire State Building at New York, New York? It's a substitution for culture--a fantasy of epic proportions stuck in the middle of a desert...
...days earlier, "Victory Tower" had been the sum of our outside existence - the 10-minute thrills of rappelling, rope bridges and cargo netting suffocated almost completely by eight hours of long lines and inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to be in the Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...