Paper on the rocks

The Maneater
University of Missouri

Amid charges of censorship and mismanagement, a decision by the University of Missouri ÷ St. Louis student government could leave the campus without a student newspaper.

UMSL's student activities budget committee decided April 11 to eliminate its usual subsidy for The Current, leaving the weekly student-run newspaper's future in doubt.

The Current had asked for $40,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. SABC approved $38,200 in funding last year, about 20 percent of the paper's budget.

Student government representatives did not return phone calls seeking comment, but in written statements they maintain that the decision to cut The Current's subsidy came from concern about the size of the salaries awarded to some student employees at the paper.

Harvard gone wild

Harvard Crimson
Harvard University

"Mather Lather" ÷ proclaimed by organizers and attendees to be the largest house party in Harvard University's recent history, was closed down early Saturday. After just over two hours of near-naked bumping-and-grinding, the Harvard University Police Department turned off the music, cleared the dance floor and ushered scantily clad co-eds off into the nippy night.

Police officials said that the house masters asked them to pull the plug on the foam-covered revelry because of concerns about overcrowding.

"It was overcrowded and things were getting a little out of hand," said HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano.

The crowd numbered between 1,000 and 1,300, according to estimates by house committee co-president Zachary A. Corker.

Barbie bust

Daily Targum
Rutgers University

To demonstrate the inaccuracy of the media's portrayal of the female form, a student organization constructed a life-size version of the Barbie doll Thursday.

The main aim of the Challenging Unrealistic Views on Eating and Size's meeting was to disprove the media standards of image.

"Men and women are both faced with issues in society that affect their bodies and how they take care of themselves and see themselves," said Douglass College senior and CURVES president Davida Eisenberg.

The Barbie doll was chosen for the event because she symbolizes these issues. Barbie's image may not consciously affect children's body image, but it does reinforce dangerous, unrealistic body images, Eisenberg said.