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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which makes nonbinding recommendations to the Corporation on its investment policy-held an open forum on University policy concerning investments in companies that do business with South Africa The now familiar spring ritual helped to educate students about the issues with a new twist-some members of the audience stepped up their call for the body to vote for divestiture, with the added demand that ACSR members resign in protest if the University did not been their recommendation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond the ACSR | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...looked like an old-fashioned college protest right out of the '60s. This demonstration, however, had a contemporary twist: more than 100 angry students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo had marched into the president's office to demand a chance to buy Apple's Macintosh computer at a discount. The California manufacturer had been offering selected colleges its new machine, which retails for $2,495, for resale to students at a price of just over $1,000. Two dozen universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, accepted Apple's terms, ordering more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Slugging It Out in the Schoolyard | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...weird, oscillating synthesizer, with strange electronic sounds, adds a new and colorful twist to "Creatures of Levania" (Kepler's dreamy inhabitants of the Moon which he claims. "By combining nature with art,... can take refuge at the bottom of the deep waters.") The compressed, off-beat bass and high, clipped synthesizer sound like portions of Alan Parson's robot music, but the song is infused with Steamroller-style life through the flowing keyboard lead, which sounds like a space-aged vibraphone played by a master planist (a strange coincidence, as the keyboardist is Jackson Berkey, Juliard graduate and Baldwin grand...

Author: By Martin Kalz, | Title: Baroque Rock | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...rather well, judging from the clothing she wears) from the crazed sex maniacs who roam the boulevard. And no matter what, despite three years of rather profitable business, none of the vice squad seems to have ever seen Angel before. Such issues are peripheral to the more critical plot twist--the mad (what else) necrophiliac who alternately pumps iron and chops up young women after making love to their corpses...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...dramatic maelstrom was the latest experimental project by veteran student director William G. Rauch '84, But the show has one more twist: the three plays are being shown a third at a time. The second part will be shown before spring break, and the third at the beginning of reading period...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: Cinderella Meets Macbeth and Medea | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

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