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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...skies that have lowered all afternoon are threatening to pour. One young farmer near me points toward the doggers and says, "They may not get to finish this." His partner looks heavenward, grinning in the drizzle, and says, "I need a good rain a lot more'n I need to watch a dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...stuck with the committee to the end, remaining in Cambridge all summer after his graduation to finish up the casework. "Why did I want to be on the committee? Well, I guess I sympathized with what the students were doing and I figured I was a strong person and wouldn't be intimidated." Fernandez believes he helped to modify some of the disciplinary action: "A lot more than three students would have been dismissed if it weren't for the students who sat on the committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Committee Needs a Reasonable Mind' | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

After his release from prison, Berg drove a laundry truck and worked as a clerk until, three years later, Harvard readmitted him to finish his dissertation. Though the University had dismissed him, he returned to the Yard to work with SDS in organizing students, attempting especially to draw attention to what he saw as sexism and racism in Harvard's employment practices...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The University Tries its Students: Case Histories From the CRR File | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...while Berlow worked in a factory, drove a truck, and tried to convince Harvard that he should finish his undergraduate degree program. Giving up, finally, he finished his B.A. at Boston University, switching from his Harvard concentration--political science--to music. He now works in an MIT laboratory, developing computer systems for children...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The University Tries its Students: Case Histories From the CRR File | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...Anderson and Martha Clabby raced to a one-two photo finish in the half-mile; Kristen Linsley took the mile in a near-personal record time of 4:55, with Mary Herlihy close behind; and the trio of Ellen Gallagher, Wiley McCarthy and Anita Diaz had a cross-country reunion at the finish line as they swept...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Bates Upsets Women's Track | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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