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Dates: during 1980-1980
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HRCF members who have actively contributed to the revival are self assured, but they avoid the hard-sell, preferring instead to discuss their faith as a simple "absolute truth" based on strict scriptural interpretation and intimate divine guidance...
...Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), which in turn is an umbrella organization for student-run college groups such as the 160-member HRCF. Urbana is Inter-Varsity's showpiece, an event that has become so popular that it will be held every two years beginning in December 1981, instead of every three, as it has been since the first small-scale gatherings in the early '40s. David Walker '83, another HRCF member who trekked to Illinois for the most recent convention, applied almost a year in advance to make sure he would get a seat. "Thousands of students were turned...
Parker herself needed to cut back the number of tenured faculty members at Bennington for financial reasons. Still, she points out that, in general, instead of producing the kind of controversial and thought-provoking research that the protection of tenure is supposed to encourage, too many teachers simply hide behind its security...
...Instead, she adopts the position that students today are being lured to college campuses by promotion that wildly misrepresents what they should expect out of the education itself. She deplores current marketing strategies such as the "Fly Adelphi" campaign, or Findlay College's "It's great to be a big fish in a small college" recruitment package, featuring Charley the Tuna. College marketting spawns pseudo-events like meetings on curriculum reform, which, she feels, are "principally planned, planted or excited for the purpose of being reported or reproduced...The harsh truth is that all this activity is generally a waste...
Hasset added that the courts, instead of assigning a prisoner to a specific prison would now send all the state's convicts to East Cambridge before reassignment to another institution...