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When the now-defunct Student Assembly met to disband last spring, the meeting didn't even draw a quorum, and the group had to vote itself out of existence by phone...
Student government in contrast has suffered from low attendance and ineffectiveness. The poor track record of the defunct Student Assembly prompted the formation of the Undergraduate Council, which will have a $55,000 budget and a direct link to Faculty committees...
...MOST COLLEGE STUDENTS, Martin Luther King remains little more than a legend. Killed while we were still too young to be aware of him, he now symbolizes a more turbulent, idealistic time a movement now seemingly defunct and a group who rose up defiantly to demand its freedom. We see him standing before the Lincoln Memorial an Old Testament prophet in the guise of a Baptist preacher both admonishing a nation for its transgressions and exhorting it to live up to a vision of brotherhood and equality. But while the image of King as a modern day Moses has become...
...thugs that the day's shootings would be conducted according to the honor system. Zapped personnel were to assume that death was instantaneous. They were to expire without comment, and of course without any post-mortem cannoneering at the enemy. Judges would be available to settle torts among defunct contestants, but we who were about to play the National Survival Game, he said sternly, were to do so with a sense of fairness...
Another potential loser is Chase Manhattan, the third-largest U.S. bank. Already reeling from a $117 million loss in the second quarter because of shaky deals with the now defunct Wall Street trading firm of Drysdale Government Securities Inc., Chase last week faced at least partial write-offs on perhaps $250 million worth of bad loans...