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This triumph represents months of work, including two failed attempts to secure other musical acts. Last fall, Mann initially attempted to use a promoter to attract a band to campus. Apparently, this is the method of choice for finer universities who fork over the 10 percent commission to obtain a great band at a reasonable price. With the promoter's connections, Digable Planets quickly emerged as a solid possibility and was expeditiously approved by the Council. Before students could even query "Digable who?" the promoter revealed to Mann that the deal had fallen thorough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UC's Concert Contract Deserves Praise | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Most of the clinicians interviewed say there is only one absolutely effective method of birth control: abstinence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING SAFE | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...search for a personalized method of dependable and safe birth control has been a top women's issue since Margaret Sanger, the founder of the Planned Parent-hood movement, crusaded for the legalizations of contraceptives in the early 20th century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING SAFE | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

When advising a female student about contraceptives, Bender says PCC counselors first establish how comfortable a woman is with her body and how appropriate a method like the sponge or diaphragm--which both require insertion--would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING SAFE | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

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