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Partial randomization offers token diversity at the expense of student choice. The sacrifice of some freshmen guinea pigs in a lily-livered attempt to pay lip service to diversity would only serve to alienate those unlucky frosh...
Episode One: (a lonely Monday morning, 2 a.m., October 1987, Winthrop House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine...
...vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours. His most recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George...
...from the weapons plant. Robert Perkes, a farmer near Mesa, his wife and three of his daughters all take medication for underactive thyroid glands. "They didn't tell us the things that were going on," Perkes complains. "They were letting it fall all over us. They used us as guinea pigs...
Although librarians have been trying out the public access system since August 1, no students have officially tested the new technology. "We haven't had any student guinea pigs," says Caplan, adding that the new few weeks will be crucial for determining how well HOLLIS matches the library system's needs...