If that were true, we couldn’t lift it. From a recent promotional letter: “His book covers the complete overview of the field of communication from the beginning of time to the far, far future.”
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Bleak House. “Water from melting snow on the health center’s roof has seeped into fireproofing and ceiling tiles that contain asbestos.É The chemistry and physics building[‘s leaky roof] has been another entirely different problem. And the bricks falling off the 16-story tower of our Holmes Student Center are another kind of problem.” So says John LaTourette, president of Northern Illinois University at De Kalb. “The phrase ‘hard times’ doesn’t quite cover just how badly the lack of adequate funding has hurt so many of our once very proud public universities not just in Illinois, but all over the Midwest. We’re going to watch them crumble around us just like the soggy ceiling tiles….If our Midwestern legislatures don’t reverse the harder and harder times at our public universities, we’re going to have a tale of two cultures: the rich, well-educated coastal states that are spending money to prepare the next generation for the 21st century; and, the poor, crumbling Heartland that’s not unlike the gloomy, harsh society portrayed by Dickens.”
The Women’s Film Festival of Chicago distributed no awards to any of the 78 films and videos shown recently, according to director Nancy Partos, because “we felt that recognizing ‘winners’ would perpetuate a submissive or dominant attitude and thereby create sexism” (Loyola World, March 2). We look forward to the day when presidential elections get the same treatment.
