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WHAT IS COOLSPEAK? Well, it's basically Orwellian Newspeak with a touch of fashion. In 1984, the function of Newspeak is to reduce the human vocabulary to the point where abstract ideas and emotions could not be verbally conveyed. Although there are probably very, very few people in California who have even heard of 1984, the inhabitants of our West Coast have done a better job of destroying the power of our language than the Ministry of Truth could have dreamed of. Take, for instance, this deep and moving conversation I heard on the shuttle...
Said Winthrop House Master James A. Davis: "Ithink there are more important problems facing theUniversity. It's obviously regrettable, butobviously a function of physical space. No onemeant to be exclusionary...
...four months the bug transmitted intimate Mob conversations between the Lucchese boss and his driver, Salvatore Avellino, to agents trailing discreetly in various "chase cars," which rebroadcast the signals to a recording van. "It was the most significant information regarding the structure and function of the Commission that has ever been obtained from electronic surveillance," declared Ronald Goldstock, chief of the Organized Crime Task Force. After building his own case against the Lucchese family for a local carting-industry racket, Goldstock alerted Giuliani to the broader implications of using the evidence to attack the Mob's controlling Commission...
...students have any complaint, it is that "at the GSD one learns architecture, and not how to be an architect," says Brad Walker (MAR '85). "Many employers want an employee who knows how to function in their offices. [The GSD's] is not a vocational education...
...National Guard fulfills an equally critical function. It has been assigned almost full responsibility for the defense of the continental U.S. against enemy air strikes. Kept on 24-hour alert, the Air Guard flies 78% of all the interceptor aircraft in the U.S. inventory. In any call to large-scale combat, the Air Guard would handle 49% of all tactical air-support missions...