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INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM...
Citing procedural difficulties, the Undergraduate Council last night refused to vote on a rugby team request for funding. (See Council story below). Rugby player and council member Thomas S. Heintzman '86 said that the council decision might doom the team's hopes, but Charles S. Weeks '85, president of the rugby club, was more optimistic. "There are too many other (funding) options," Weeks said...
...essays in Reality and Rhetoric are full of promises of doom should the Third World continue on its present course. But Bauer's failure is that he never displays a full under standing of why these countries act the way that they do now, and whey an economic logic stronger than Bauer's prevents them from changing course as radically as he proposes...
Unlike her previous books, which tend to degenerate into a string of unrelated, if interesting, incidents, Tuchman binds the four examples together with common factors. Starting with the original Laocoon, a citizen of Troy who felt that various natural phenomena promised doom, Tuchman goes on to find modern-day Laocoons. John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. and McGeorge Bundy. Moreover, each instance of folly described by Tuchman builds on the one before it: modern leaders repeat--and expand--the mistakes of their predecessors...
...Academics Committee is trying to set up a system in which upperclassmen would attend all doom proctor meetings on academic advising to answer freshmen's questions. As Mr. Melamed agrees, upperclassmen would offer a valuable yet different perspective from proctors. In particular, upper-class advisors would be able to describe current courses and trends within many academic departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments the advisors do not know well. It is a needless waste of a resource not to employ...