Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson played the Bruins even for 116 tantalizing minutes. But with four minutes to play in the second overtime period, a Suzanne Bailey header wasted Harvard's valiant effort, propelling Brown to a 2-1 victory and a clear path to the Ivy title...
...funny thing happening in the rural Northern California town of Laytonville (pop. 1,000) revolves around one of Dr. Seuss's fantasies, The Lorax. The book has been required reading for second-graders for two years, but recently Judith Bailey requested that the Laytonville Unified School District downgrade it to optional. In The Lorax, it seems, a villain fells a forest to make garments called thneeds, and Dr. Seuss urges, "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack." Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler. After his son read the book, says Bill...
...Bailey's request signaled a new skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack...
...Bailey questioned the lack of pre-education tutors in the houses, especially because there are pre-med, pre-law, and pre-business tutors. "You're not going to get that faculty if you're not promoting it from the student body right here," she said...
...Bailey said that Black life at Harvard should not be construed as entirely negative. "There were positive issues," she said, pointing to the success of the alumni conference...