I've been worrying a lot about nutrition lately. Since I moved off campus at the end of last term, I've cooked for myself 18 out of the past 20 days.
Moe's Italian sandwich shop on Lebanon Street closed suddenly last night because of management troubles. An announcement on the store's answering machine told customers the store would not deliver their Italian sandwiches. "Due to circumstances beyond our control, this store is closed," the message said.
The Trustees' decision Saturday to reinvest in South Africa closes another chapter in a decade-long controversy that caused the largest student protests in decades and ultimately led to the resignation of College President David McLaughlin. But the once-passionate issue of the College's financial ties to South Africa has dimmed in recent years and the announcement has been received as another routine event during a routine Trustee meeting. After just four years of restrictions on South African investments, the Trustees decided that the word of Nelson Mandela, the South African statesman and leader of the African National Congress, was enough to sway them into reinvesting. Mandela, in a speech to the United Nations on Sept.
Administrators said yesterday they cannot guarantee that the education department will offer classes until 1997, exposing a rift between the department and the Dean of Faculty Office and confusing students who were told they could earn a certificate in education before they graduate. George Wolford, the assistant dean of faculty for the social sciences, called an announcement from the education department to the Class of 1997 "a premature communication." "There wasn't sufficient consultation between their department and our office," Wolford said. Wolford said students will be updated as soon as the College knows more about the department's future.
The College officially opens the academic year today with the 224th Convocation excercises in Leede Arena, featuring speeches by film maker Ken Burns and College President James Freedman. Student Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 is also slated to speak at the 11 a.m.
Next year's Senior Symposium will focus on social responsibility and the college generation, organizers said yesterday. The symposium is the senior class' intellectual gift to the College. Dan Garodnick '94, the class president, selected Julie Lane '94 and Tim Martin '94 to head a 25-member committee that will organize the two-day event.
Hopkins Institute says the College pays too many administrators