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Signers pledged not to assist B.U. in usual administrative functions such as evaluating applicants for positions at the university until the situation is resolved, Salvador E. Luria, an Institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), who wrote the letter, said yesterday...
Dixon said he, like the rest of the team, was a little nervous at first, but said he geared up to play his usual game in the second half. It showed...
After all, candidates from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's old-line liberal group, nabbed four of six school committee seats and four of nine city council slots. The CCA vote percentage was much higher than usual. David Sullivan, the CCA's rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There...
...English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts in by the back door, but it founders because of the usual Harvard problem of trying to do too much in too short a time. If the Carpenter was limited to a solid, rigorous introduction to drawing and painting for undergraduates it could work wonders. But instead students are barraged with courses on everything from design to film-making, many of which...
...voters, was just one cloud in the campaign. The Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT), another new group largely discredited as a political force by their candidate Frisoli's poor showing, mailed condo owneres a letter listing the tax assessement on the homes of some "anti-condo" councilors. And the usual number of nasty rumors and charges circulated the city. Perhaps the most widely-voiced and least effective concerned David Sullivan. "Psssst," people would say, elbowing your ribs. "Did you know his name is really Solomon?" It isn't, at least according to his birth certificate. But none of the charges...