Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Integration and busing may well be the states' prerogatives, but the states won't do a thing, and the sponsors of the amendment know that," Cambridge School Committee member Glenn S. Koocher '71 said yesterday. "We have to look to the federal government for leadership and support," he added...
Crane said he thinks the task force report shows decreasing national support for rent control. But he added he doubts that many Cantabrigians have lost support for it. "There's public sentiment for some sort of changes in the administration of rent control, but not for doing away with it entirely," he said...
...given the background of Harvard's inaction on race-related issues; given the multiplication of racial incidents on other campuses, including recent convulsions at Williams College; and given the spread of racist violence in cities across America, many students rightly look askance at this merely symbolic act of support. Deans Epps, Fox, and Moses, President Horner, and general counsel Daniel Steiner '54 all should be devoting their energies to showing Third World and other minority groups that they are genuinely welcome here. Deans should accompany their symbolic acts with substantive ones...
...isolated or indicate the presence of organized racist activity on campus, and whether they presage actual violence or not, their psychological effect on Black students is clear and harmful. Individual students should do all they can to express their horror, from attending rallies like Saturday's to communicating their support individually to Third World and minority students...
Director Nunn, 40, had been thinking about doing a Dickens adaptation for some time, but the financial crisis of 1979 urged the decision on him. The Conservative government was making worrisome noises about cutting its subsidies to the arts. Since the R.S.C. receives more than one-third of its support from an Arts Council grant, the company cautiously renewed its lease on the Aldwych for only the first half of 1980. This meant that whatever activity was undertaken there would have to keep some 40 actors busy as well as light a fire under the Arts Council...