Read on
For most University students, it is probably hard to imagine what it would be like being unable to read. Students go through their daily lives immersed in textbooks and e-mail, concentrating on the next big paper. What we often don't realize is that close to home, there are children who can not read well and migrant farm workers who can barely speak English. Students participating in the America Reads Campaign and a University linguistics course are tutoring these groups in reading and speaking English.
All the wrong reasons
A few days ago, the U.S. Senate decided not to call a vote on President Clinton's nomination of James C. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist, to be U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. The Republican leadership in the Senate, whose majority ensures its ability to schedule Senate votes, bases much of its opposition to Hormel's appointment on the fact that he is gay. Most congressional officials believe that Hormel, who is popular among many Senate Republicans and Democrats, would most likely win a nomination vote if it were to be called.
Letters to the Editor
Friends feel private, yet public, pain in mourning
In the first days of 1996, I learned a lesson that should have come when I am much older. It is a lesson many people on campus were also harshly awakened to in the past week.
10-23-98
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