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...private institutions are experiencing increases in applications. The picture at major public universities is more uneven. Applications are up 7 per cent at the University of Iowa and 12 per cent at the University of California at Berkeley, but down 10 per cent at the University of Ilinois's Urbana campus...
...Labreteche, France; Michael Donnelly '71-4 of Dunster House and Rockville, Md.; Kenneth Haas '72 of Eliot House and New York: Bruce Johnson '72 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio: Glenn Most '72 of Eliot House and New York: Timothy Peltason '72 of Leverett House and Urbana, Ill.; Phillip Rapoport '72 Dudley House and Great Neck, N.Y.: and Jon Rosenberg '72 of Currier House and Pittsburgh, Penn...
...some 15,000 miles of bike paths are in use, including the 332-mile Wisconsin bikeway that stretches from the state's eastern edge at Lake Michigan across to the Mississippi River. San Francisco has opened the Golden Gate Bridge to cyclists. In campus towns like Champaign and Urbana, Ill., and Davis, Calif., where there are nearly as many bikes as people, there are separate bicycle lanes on city streets. City officials in Washington, D.C., are considering a proposal for a commuter system of bicycle routes radiating like spokes from the Mall to the suburbs. As concern over...
...case not necessarily in counterpoint, take the 1971 American College Jazz Festival, held recently on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. While 15 groups from all over the country joined in, trumpets blared through sinus-shattering amplification, making it painfully clear that the young today seem to like their jazz every bit as loud as rock. Yet it was astounding to hear one band after another mix rock, the classics, or electronic compositions into fertile jazz blends. Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal...
...prosecute the war. Those who took the action thought it essential to show students and others around the country and the world who are rightly working to stop the Southeast Asian war altogether, that their views are shared at Harvard. At other universities (the University of Illinois at Urbana is the most recent example) since then, other similar government-orchestrated sessions have been prevented from taking place. The Harvard administration's response has been to take the action entirely out of this context and to simply cite violations of the freedoms of students to invite and hear speakers, and speakers...