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...conga line, bought the Trini Lopez album, then moved on heedlessly to something else? It has and it did. But this time the prospects are different. Latin influences that were once just a pinch of spice for most Americans are bidding to become a vital part of the wider culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surging New Spirit | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...students entering the class seem to comefrom a wider variety of states than in the past,with only 19.6 percent coming from New England.While almost 30 percent of the incoming class isfrom the Mid Atlantic states, that percentage isslightly down from past years as more students areapplying and gaining acceptance from the PacificNorthwest and foreign countries than ever before...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Freshman Class Sets Application Records | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

About three months after Davis joined the band, Bullet LaVolta entered the underground Boston music scene--as the band played a show at Adams House and their single "Baggage" brought them airtime on local radio stations and a new, wider audience. That summer, the band produced its first limited release tape...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: And His Band Plays On | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...wider sense, the whole view of what the normal person does and how they talk must be changed.... The whole view of disabled students, what they can do and what they should do, all these things should be changed," says Wallace, who headed up Action for a Better Learning Environment (ABLE), a disabled students group...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Clearing Barriers to Learning | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Students are addressing a wider range of issues, from local problems to international conflicts. At Dartmouth College last week, students opened a women's center as part of their effort to change sexist attitudes left over from the all-male enrollment 16 years ago. At Yale University, students are concerned with divestment and union organizing as well as community work such as tutoring high school students. Across the country, students are concerned with racism, sexism and the homeless in America and divestment from South Africa...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Times, They Have a'Changed: Student Activism in the 1980s | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

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