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...implication the groups have challenged CHUL and the other student-faculty committees. They seek to step into the vacuum in the organized presentation of student opinions to the administration, a vacuum CHUL and the other committees have left unfilled. CHUL's primary problem runs deep, to its original Faculty charter. In CHUL, the Faculty built an almost powerless body, and certain administrators have compounded CHUL's weakness by refusing to comply with student members' requests for budgetary data, essential if CHUL is to take informed, credible stands on the issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Government | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...designated catcher Tim McCarver (.323) are solid behind the plate. Larry Bowa (.279) stands above all other major league shortstops in the field, and he teams with Sizemore for an excellent doubleplay combo. In center, Garry Maddox (.291, 74 RBI's) slurps up fly balls like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and discharges them to the infield just as quickly...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Skirmishes Over, Baseball Playoff Battles Begin | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting the Big Picture | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...most of the converts, the discipline of Bhajanism seems to have rilled a deep spiritual vacuum. Many are in their mid-20s and come from upper-middle-class homes. A number had been dependent upon LSD and marijuana; the movement claims that all have broken the habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...cops' new "juvenile sweeps." In one of them last month, his men picked up 61 teen-agers on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love it, I love it." Says he: "Our policemen feel they are taking part in a perverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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