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...town has been than where it is going. English Teacher Tizoe Romero recalls the '40s, when Memorial was the poor white man's school. Coach Harry Franson remembers twelve years ago, when Memorial was overwhelmingly black. Today Memorial is about 70% Hispanic. A copy of the 1980 yearbook lies open on a table in the art room: Maggie Lopez and Marcos Robles "Best Couple"-and Georgina Araujo and Alfonso Martinez-"Best Hair." One searches in vain for the pair selected "Most Likely to Succeed." There is no such category, only an equivalent called "Standouts...
...also demanded that the yearbcok take action to "insure that future readers are aware of the offensive nature of the article." The yearbook editors "might mail a letter of apology to each person who bought a yearbook," Sarah E. Yedinsky '83, president of the GSA, said before the GSA meeting last night. The GSA left open the specific actions it wants, pending a meeting Monday with the yearbook editors...
Steven N. Fine '82, editor in chief of the 1981 yearbook, said yesterday he did not find the article offensive to gays or to Adams House. "Corman was trying to show that Adams House is more than its stereotypes. He wrote, 'Rumor has it'; he was not presenting facts. It is not malicious; I don't think it is derogatory. I apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize for running the article...
...member executive board of the yearbook will decide what official action to take on the two complaints after its Monday meeting with...
...Adams House Committee was also offended by the article's "unfair depiction of Europeans, actors and other 'weird people,'" the committee's letter to the yearbook said...