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...have earned through four years of work here--and which, in most cases, their families have paid dearly for. To predicate the availability of tickets on the completion of the surveys suggests that tickets are some sort of reward which the College may or may not decide to dispense upon us. The arrangement, frankly, cheapens the whole process of graduation. To quote Crimson editor Martha Bridegam '89, the set-up smacks more of the operators of a Soviet department store than of a modern American university...
Apparently the College has not considered that the conditions it has imposed upon the availability of Commencement tickets may bias many respondents against it in the survey. In particular, the questions about "Administration responsiveness to student concerns" and "Faculty attitudes toward students" will be difficult for seniors to approach with an open mind...
...tumbledown house on Van Dyke Avenue on Detroit's gritty East Side looks as if it fell from the sky. Actually, it collapsed after scavengers pried the bricks out from the foundation. Armed with wagons, shopping carts, wheelbarrows and pickup trucks, vandals have descended upon the city's empty buildings. In some cases, they have hauled away entire walls and porches, brick by brick. These thefts are a new wrinkle in free-lance demolition on the East Side, which has also experienced a plague of aluminum-siding rip-offs...
...Once upon a time there were many magazines for children, and they featured such artful writers as Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens. But today's children are too distracted by television to sit down and read. Right? Wrong. In the past two years alone, the number of children's publications tracked by the Educational Press Association of America has nearly doubled, from 85 to 160, bringing their total circulation to an impressive 40 million. Says Don Stoll, executive director of the EPAA: "There has been extraordinary activity in children's periodicals...
...extent to which dolphins were used in the war is classified information, but rumors persist that they killed enemy divers. Point Mugu veterans consider it more probable that the animals helped capture divers alive for interrogation. Upon realizing what the dolphins' mission would be, some of the trainers begged off being part of the final preparation of the animals. Says one: "The whole program was a hideous use of the most benevolent creatures I ever had the chance to know. To the dolphins, it was all games...