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...early as the fall of 1982, members of Hillel and some other groups had asked President Bok to postpone Commencement one day--till Friday, June 8--to avoid conflicting with the two-day holiday. Shavuos, which commemorates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people, is celebrated by Orthodox Jews and some others: several national rabbinical authorities have ruled that attending Commencement ceremonies on that day violates religious law, while others say it contravenes the "spirit" of the holiday. In addition, the holiday poses problems for observant families of graduates, who cannot travel to attend the ceremony...
With 37 3/4 points, the Crimson finished tied for seventh with Salisbury State in the two-day tournament in New London, Conn. Southern Connecticut won the 16-team meet, accumulating 67 1/2 points, just enough to edge second-place Columbia...
...study is actually two efforts, by cooperating groups of scientists, one headed by Cornell Astronomer and TV Personality Carl Sagan and the other by Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich. They presented their findings at the two-day Conference on the Longterm, Worldwide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War. It was attended by some 600 American and foreign scientists and environmentalists and addressed by satellite by four Soviet counterparts in Moscow. Among them: Evgeni Velikhov, vice president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The Soviets said they had independently come to roughly the same conclusions as the Sagan-Ehrlich teams...
...negotiation exercise was part of a two-day conference on resolving conflicts sponsored by the Kennedy School's one-year-old Business and Government Center. The Center is dedicated to "bringing the worlds of the public and private sectors closer to one another," said Director Winthrop Knowlton '53 last week...
...head table sat former President Gerald E. Ford. At the other was former President Jimmy Carter. The two were slated to address the crowd on the problem which the two-day symposium was called to examine--the marked decline in voter participation, which dropped below 55 percent during the two men's 1976 duel...