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| Title | Houstonian, 1995 |
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| Date | 1995 |
| Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published by the students of the university in 1995, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 61 1995 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | The Classrooms |
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| File Name | yearb1995161.jpg |
| Transcript | heros, homeless, voting, violence, triumphs, tragedy, winners, war, disasters, death, Metallicaisno ordinary heavy metal band. Over the last 13 years the band gained a reputation as a real talent. As one critic said: "Their style combines distortionless, complicated guitar parts Barbie, 35... Barbie, the world's best- selling doll, turned 35. And Disney released the 56- year-old Snow White, the first animated full- length feature film, on home video. Retailers ordered 2 7 million copies. Smoke Signals... Sixteen thousand smokers and tobacco workers marched in Washington to protest a proposed 75-cent- per-pack tax increase; throughout the year, cigarette companies pushed smokers' rights in their ads. and defiant vocals with rhythms that are much faster than the beat of the human heart." The effect is jarring and exhilarating. Their latest album called "Metallica" hit the top of the charts. A More than 5,000 people died in a violent earthquake that rumbled through Kobe, Japan, on January 17, 1995. What had been a bustling region of office towers and apartment buildings was turned to rubble. Estimates of the damage ranged from $100 billion to $130 billion, and some 2 7 0,000 people were forced to live in refugee shelters because their homes collapsed or were unsafe. Toni Braxton sings the smooth sounds of rhythm and blues. She captured critical and commercial success with songs like "Breathe Again" and "Another Sad Love Song." Her latest album, "Toni Braxton" it the top of the charts in 1994. She received major praise from the critics. "She is blessed with both a commanding voice and the good sense not to overuse it," said one critic. Slow Blaming JUS tice... Butt-head... Thirty-one years after civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot in the back in Jackson, Miss., 73- year-old white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was finally convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. The case had been reopened after Beckwith boasted about the killing to several area residents. A bowling ball dropped from a New Jersey overpass crashed through a car windshield and killed eight-month- old Natalia Rivera. Eighteen-year-old Calvin Settle was indicted for manslaughter. A media-watchdog group said the tragedy echoed an episode of the cartoon series Beavis and Butt-head. The incident recalled a 1993 house fire in Moraine, Ohio, started by a kid who learned to play with fire by watching B &B. Houstonian 1995 190 |