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DIED. RICHARD J. SINNOTT, 76, city censor; in his sleep at home in Boston. From 1955 until 1982 when his position was cut, Sinnott looked over movies, music, plays and strippers to decide if they should be "banned in Boston." He kept the Jackson Five from performing and forced Edward Albee to remove lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a local theater...
...invite a wide variety of speakers, which in previous years have included former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr., former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...
...really pleased with the number of women who turned up to vote,” said Allana Jackson ’03, the current president of the group, which was founded to promote the interests of black women on campus. “I thought the members showed a lot of investment in the organization...
...Both Jackson and members of the incoming board said that community building and recruitment would be the focus of the group in the coming year...
...Next year I hope we can build community, really foster community of black women on campus,” Jackson said...