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...Beica ’11 doesn’t have a driver’s license, but he did qualify for his private pilot’s license when he was 17 and has an advanced ground instructor certificate. Beica is organizing an aviation club to alleviate the monetary burden that can come along with his hobby. “I want to open up aviation to people who don’t necessarily have a lot of money,” Beica says. Caitlin A. Rotman ’09, a prospective member of the club, discovered the rush...
...them to fundraise among alumni, JV programs remain the only place where non-Varsity athletes can continue to compete at a high-level regardless without having to worry about their finances. That alone makes the ones with at least a modicum of participation worth protecting, even at a slight burden to the Athletics Department. The non-financial requirements of club athletes—finding their own coaches, scheduling their own games, and arranging for facility access, for example—become incredibly, and often prohibitively, demanding. While there are good reasons for a JV team to switch to club status...
...Chinese left on the margins of the boom. He has his eye on his legacy. "Personally, I found Hu to be a very serious man," says Michael Green, a former U.S. National Security Council official under President George W. Bush. "You get the sense that he feels the burden of responsibility--how history will judge him--weighing very heavily on his shoulders...
...Katzmann, the judge who awarded Currier the break time last week, rejected the board’s argument and cited the potential for pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week’s decision. That opinion overturned a ruling the week before by Judge Patrick F. Brady of Norfolk Superior Court, who ruled in favor of the Board. Zaroulis added that Currier would take...
...nothing unusual about Johns Hopkins’ strategy for the rest of the game.The Blue Jays capitalized on Harvard’s misfortunes, scoring six goals on man-advantage opportunities and effectively counter-attacking off of the Crimson’s turnover woes.After Livingston’s ejection, the burden of offensive responsibility fell upon the shoulders of Tune and sophomore Egen Atkinson.The team had eight different individuals land on the scoresheet, as Atkinson lead the team with three goals.“When Spence [Livingston] was ejected, it fell on Egen and I to step...