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...same thing for dancing. Before the advent of sound movies, dance for most Americans meant tap dancers "laying down iron" in vaudeville. Before Astaire, screen dance was a thundering herd of chorines tapping out a Busby Berkeley abstraction. "I didn't think I had too much of a chance," Astaire would later say -- with good reason. To be sure, he and his sister Adele had worked their way from Omaha through small-time vaudeville to stage stardom in New York and London. But Adele had retired, and at 34, Fred was not obvious star material: a skinny fellow with...
Others say that the teaching of ethics is not at all feasible. "I think it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said David J. Vogel, professor of business and public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. "I think it's sort of a parody--the notion of throwing money at problems went out with the sixties. I think that schools are setting themselves up to be made fools...
...this point, [students] are thinking 'I know what you are supposed to do, but I can't do it'," says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom sales at the UHS pharmacy rose this year, with much of the increase coming in bulk packages of three dozen condoms...
...anti-gay sentiment] is not typical for this campus," says Carol A. Southard, head nurse at the University of Chicago student health service. Turco says that while anti-gay sentiment is not particularly visible at Dartmouth, "it's always in the background." Vaughn says, "Many students with AIDS [at Berkeley] go elsewhere for treatment for fear of being ostracized...
School officials are bracing themselves for anincreased presence of AIDS on campus. Healthofficials at Berkeley have calculated that on theaverage university campus with a population ofabout 30,000 students, 45 to 90 students willdevelop AIDS over the course of five years. Theyalso predicted that of the 2.7 million students atCalifornia institutions of higher learning,between 4658 and 22,770 can be expected to developAIDS or ARC (AIDS-related complex) at some pointduring their lives