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Such stories of not being recruited abound among successful women athletes, including two-year squash captain and varsity heavyweight stroke Jennifer Stone '80, and organization governing women's collegiate athletics, the AIAW, has designed its tight regulations with the intention of eluding the recruiting excesses that have beset men's sports under the auspices of the NCAA. And while women's coaches concede that loopholes exist, Stoeckel says only time will reveal whether women's athletics avoid the pitfalls prevalent among big-time recruitment...
...School's library, Bok ordered coffee and doughnuts and thanked the students for "coming to show your concern." Bok's colleagues from his Law School days, including James Vorenberg, professor of Law, clearly remember the "very cool, moderate role" the young dean played in calming a school beset by its share of the heat...
...three plays have been called the Henriad, so smoothly does one follow another. In Richard II, Henry Bolingbroke deposed and killed the sybaritic Richard and took for himself the title of Henry IV. As Henry IV, Part One, begins, he discovers that, having usurped the crown, he is himself beset by usurpers. The Percy family, which helped him to the throne, has learned too well the lesson of rebellion. The firebrand of the family, young Hotspur, refuses to accede to the new king's demands for prisoners captured in a conflict along the Scottish border. The result...
...Beset by imports and low investment, an industry struggles to shape...
Close your eyes for a minute, and relax. Forget about the personality problems which allegedly beset the Harvard swimming establishment. Think instead about the end of the aquawomen's 1978-79 season. Remember the 1-8 finish--not a happy thought at all. But sports columns should be happy; forget about the 1-8 season...