Dear MacAbby

Students who are embarrassed to ask personal questions of a living person—questions about contraception, alcohol, eating disorders and the like—are turning to the computer. A new on-line program called Macanswer provides an anonymous forum for specific answers.

Macanswer is the brainchild of nurse practitioner Phyllis Riggs-Mclntire, who cordinated the effort with Kiewit. The program works like this: A student logs onto the College's electronic mail system and sends a question to Macanswer's electronic mailbox. A human being at the health service writes the answer and sends it back to the inquirer via electronic mail.

Before the debate: About 200 students, faculty and community members held an antiapartheid rally on the Green. Arthur Ashe was the keynote speaker. Meanwhile, back atthe Inn, the "Tax Twins" a.k.a. Don Soifer '90 and Martin Coyne '90, stood alongsidea crowd gathered in support of Jack Kemp. To symbolize the plight of the Americantaxpayer, the clowns passed out fake money with a bite taken out of the bill.