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Despite the whimsy of this story, sliding down bannisters remains a valid method of athletic expression. Since the advent of the two-story building, human beings have taken to their asses instead of tripping downstairs, great distance runners have borne the name "bannister" in celebration of the rival sport, and the term "bench-warmer" was bestowed on the American language by the particular frustration of second-string sliders who were forced to maintain more orthodox carriages during key bannister contests...
...information on his case by telephone from the U.S. Attorney's office. Unwilling to surrender without legal advice, he contends that every lawyer he contacted wanted between $500 and $2,500 to take his case, so he returned to Vancouver. "If I had had the opportunity to do valid public service four years ago," he says, "I never would have left the country." On the other hand, John Barry, 22, a draft-dodging San Francisco musician, hired a lawyer and gave himself up to the same U.S. Attorney's office. Considered a hardship case because he supports...
Burns says that a valid concern in supporting the liberation of oppressed peoples is that her group is being patronizing, but she adds that the liberation of others would be in "my self-interest...
...explained in a preface to the Guide, so that its users can assess the degree of confidence they should place in its findings. This past year the Committee on Undergraduate Education evaluated 36 courses using a computer-tabulated questionnaire that was distributed in the courses evaluated, thus insuring a valid sample. On a numerical scale of one to five representing the gamuts clear--muddled, dull-lively, and thought provoking--pedantic, Phil 8 scored respectively 1,9,3,7, and 1.8. In each case Phil 8 was higher than the average of those courses evaluated. Given that the course...
...analogy to the 1950s is only partly valid. Studies by Daniel Yankelovich, the public-opinion analyst who periodically surveys American youth, document the fact that the social and moral values that flourished on campus in the 1960s "have grown stronger and more powerful." More liberal sexual mores, a lessening of automatic obedience to established authority and skepticism about the U.S. political process seem to have become fixed characteristics of most American young people...