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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that calls for year-round random drug testing for all collegiate athletes. Meeting last week in Indianapolis, the legislation-initiating board fully endorsed the broad-based powers of the proposal, which would allow NCAA officials to test any or all of the teams at a campus at any time without prior notice...
Wilkes said ethical questions also contributed to Zaire's cool reception of the plan, citing the difficulty of preserving the fauna of the area without threatening the subsistence of its population...
Fewer people realize, however, that since then, the Verba report has failed almost completely. It has failed not because its recommendations were poor, but because the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the faculty, vetoed them without letting the full Faculty consider their merits. The only success achieved was in terms of good publicity for the Administration, which has been able to make it appear that the Faculty is responding to the Verba report, when in fact almost nothing has been done...
...great photographs have lives of their own, but they can be as false as dreams. Somehow the mind knows that and sorts out the matter, and permits itself to enjoy the pictures without getting sunk in the really mysterious business that they involve...
Still, a puritan conscience recoils a little from the sheer power of photographs. They have lingering about them the ghost of the golden calf -- the bright object too much admired, without God's abstract difficulties. Great photographs bring the mind alive. Photographs are magic things that traffic in mystery. They float on the surface, and they have a strange life in the depths of the mind. They bear watching...