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...elections. Under the plan, which will be implemented this year, the University will mail letters to alumni endorsing their official slate of candidates. The plan will also require HRAAA candidates to be listed as a group separately on the ballots, after the University candidates. Previously, they were listed in random order...
...present system. Students form rooming groups and can block together as they do now. Then, instead of ranking their top three choices in order, they pick (but don't rank) four houses that they would be happy in. The computer then puts the blocks in order at random as it does now, and it goes down the list, randomly choosing which of the four houses the group will live...
...member NCAA Council--which includes Harvard Athletic Director Jack Reardon--has unanimously endorsed a proposal that calls for year-round random drug testing for all collegiate athletes. Meeting last week in Indianapolis, the legislation-initiating board fully endorsed the broad-based powers of the proposal, which would allow NCAA officials to test any or all of the teams at a campus at any time without prior notice...
...large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail-order shopping, and may have hit on a winning enterprise. Still, the thriving independents hope that buying...
...wouldn't want to be General Manuel Noriega the next time George Bush gets a bead on him. For reasons having more to do with random events and petty frustration than with any rational calculus of relative evil and threat to the nation, the pit-faced Panamanian dictator is now U.S. Public Enemy No. 1. Our top foreign policy goal, for the moment, is to wipe him out. Nothing would add more to the nation's pursuit of happiness. Even those liberal Democrats who would want six months of hearings before responding to a nuclear attack are screaming for blood...