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...November 16, over 300 students at SUBR marched to the president's office. He told the students that he would go down town to see about their grievances. While he was absent, the students calmly remained at his office. Office workers and security guards continued their regular business throughout the building. No seizure had taken place. About fifteen minutes later, police, state troopers and Sheriff's deputies stormed the campus. A state trooper tossed a tear gas canister into a large crowd of black students gathered on the steps of the administration building. The remaining officers fired indiscriminately into...
...college--get a job as a clerk, you'll meet a nice man..." wash over us with the indistinct familiarity of a TV ad we've heard a hundred times. It is obvious why this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth, the play helps us keep it at arm's length. The thrust it makes into our lives is precisely that which we are most adept...
...Anniversary. Papadopoulos was whisked off by missile boat to exile on the island of Kea, 40 miles southeast of Athens. Four of his associates, including former Deputy Premiers Stylianos Pattakos and Nikolas Makarezos, were also on board, charged with similar crimes. Absent and wanted was the brigadier general who ousted Papadopoulos last year, Dimitrios Ioannidis. At week's end Ioannidis was still at large...
...people think of crew as a gentleman's sport for preppies and upwardly mobile types and for the most part that's an accurate description of Ivy League crew. But, where I learned to row, at the West Side Rowing Club, in Buffalo, N.Y., the aristocratic aura was conspicuously absent. The clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city...
...vote was six to five in favor of the statement, but the club's bylaws require a majority vote of seven to pass a proposal. The two members who were absent have one week to submit their votes...