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...dispiriting consequences of friction between students and university administrators during recent years has been the stepped up efforts of administrators to control the campus press. In each of the last three years, officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and vest final decision making power in the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
...most dispiriting consequence of friction between students and university administrators during been the stepped up efforts of administrators control the campus press. In each of the last three years officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and to vest final decision makeup power in school administrators. The latest episode perhaps the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
...promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction leader will make special payments of perhaps $3,300-known as a bodan chokkl, or "bulletproof vest"-to his followers, thereby enabling him to deliver their votes in a bloc to the candidate of his choice...
...right! For a while. A long while. At first I bought the whole shot. My head got straight; I went to Columbia-after I said I would never go to any of those phony Ivy schools-and even tried a year of law school. I wore a Tattersall vest. I even wore a hat, for God's sake. Not a red hunting cap, I mean a hat. A whaddyacall it. A fedora. My father used to rate me like a New York pollution inspector: good, acceptable, unhealthy. I became a Good...
...wore tan shoes and pink shoelaces, a polka dot vest and a big panama with a purple...