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...comes in response to a disturbing editorial written by Joshua A. Kaufman ('All Pfucked Up," Dartboard, Apr. 8 1995) regarding campus housing. Mr. Kaufman embodies the very racism and ignorance that cause so many Black students to seek company amongst themselves. To describe the Quad as a ghetto merely because a larger proportion of Black Students resides there blatantly reveals the fact that racism is still a prevent force on this campus. The denotation of ghetto is a neighborhood dominated by some ethnic minority group. the fact of the matter is that whites and Asians far outnumber any group...
Xiaomeng Tong's "Human Rights Hypocrisy" (signed piece, Apr. 5, 1995), raises too many issues for one letter to supply sufficient response. Yet typical of a Beijing party-line invective, albeit a soft-pedaled one, the editorial quietly intends to deflect the international issues at hand between the U.S. and China to matters of "internal affairs," both Chinese and American. Certainly, to point out the U.S.'s inequalities (which we can expect to be exacerbated in the fallout of the Newtonian Congress) is no panacea for China's woeful inability to understand democracy, and Tong's choice to ignore China...
Sackler Museum. Apr. 8, "Body Sights: A Symposium on Vision, the Body, and Video Art" from...
...percent commissions to travel agents, who make 85 percent of U.S. plane reservations. The airlines say they will pay agents just $25 per one-way domestic ticket and $50 per round-trip fare instead. To help make up the losses, Carlson Wagonlit will charge a $15 service fee beginning Apr. 1, and American Express will charge $20 for domestic tickets priced under $300 starting Mar. 6. "Many customers may now refuse to go to agents and pay the fee and instead do the homework themselves," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Some airlines, he adds, are already encouraging customers...
...hiding for penning "The Satanic Verses," which offended Muslims. Under contest rules, the author of the best short story about Rushdie's "moments of fear and anxiety" will win 10 gold coins. (Second and third place winners get five and three gold coins, respectively.) Entries must be submitted by Apr. 20. It was unclear whether Rushdie himself is eligible...