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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...take part. Says Hurt's literature: "They [the sponsors] are the 'Achilles' heel' of the entire television industry ... The purpose of the campaign is not to take programs off the air, but to insist that they be cleaned up so that they are no longer an insult to decency and [a] negative influence on our young people...
...While General Foods regrets this situation, it recognizes that standards of taste are subjective." Indeed, before the crusade began, the company had decided to put no more money into The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game because, says an executive, "the company no longer found them to be in good taste." The Churches of Christ agree: those two shows are on an expanded hit list...
...years ago when we could say no, no, no. That is not going to happen any more. Now we are interested in moderating the velocity of development and preserving the freedom of choice on energy sources for the future." Governor Lamm agrees: "In these explorations, the question is no longer...
...experienced a renaissance over the last ten years. A series of major city block renovations, new civic centers and shopping complexes, parks, theaters, and restaurants have capped a program all aimed at drawing people back into the city. So far it's been successful; young working couples no longer flee to the suburbs, they rent fashionable brownstone apartments in the Shadyside quarter or buy and restore one of many beautiful but dilapidated "Pittsburgh style" houses, built on a grand scale around the turn of the century...
Students on advisory committees have been just as ineffective at achieving reforms. Despite polls showing that the majority of students opposed the Core Curriculum, students on CUE and the Core subcommittees did not oppose the Core. And despite polls showing that students favor calendar reform, longer library hours and alternative meal plans, CHUL has made no progress in any of these areas. Student members of CHUL say they have felt particularly impotent this year in controversies over kiosk and registration-packet regulations...