Word: underground
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...thing to expect.”Ryan Travia, director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, said he has implemented outreach programs to support and educate student leaders about their responsibilities. “With this sort of policy, you always have a risk of drinking going underground,” Travia said, also acknowledging that students could be less likely to call for help for fear of getting in trouble. Nevertheless, this semester’s statistics do not show a change in the number of students going to University Health Services (UHS) for alcohol-related problems...
IIIZ+ (pronounced “three-zee-plus”) may sound like a codename for some kind of top-secret underground organization, but it refers to a musical group that doesn’t hold any secrets about its desire to bring together a unique repertoire in the face of ethnic and linguistic barriers.The name stands for “three zithers plus percussion,” a zither ensemble whose members hail from Germany, Alaska, Taiwan, and Japan. IIIZ+ performed a free concert on Wednesday, Oct. 17 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International...
...bold signature of a Pei pyramid or a Gehry curve; it manages instead to be quietly beautiful. An exquisitely crafted foyer of cedar, textured granite and brushed bronze is lined on one side with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the brick rear of the original museum. Galleries start underground and work their way up around the broad shaft of natural light that streams through Moneo's glass lantern. At the top comes the delicious surprise: a gorgeously restored Baroque cloister - dismantled from the neighboring San Jerónimo church and carefully reassembled in the new wing - that functions...
...Still reeling from the event, many students have made the argument that the administration’s new policies will force drinking further underground. Petersen believes that ending the fund “forces undergraduates who want to drink to attend off-campus events in unsafe environments with unfamiliar people outside of the safety and care provided by our Houses.” Taken together with new policies for student groups, Petersen also claims that “both shift the social life on campus into hands of the privileged...
...gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon criticized the encroachment of pornography into everyday life. The belief that pornography operates underground, she said, causes people to ignore obscene material that is right under their noses. “No matter how real and harmful pornography gets, it seems to live in this parallel universe where everything that happens is rendered harmless and unreal,” said MacKinnon, who was invited...