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Spring is for romance, new beginnings and warm weather on the way. Also for young men with high numbers on their backs, signaling at least another year of seasoning, until eventually, like Cal Ripken Jr. and Chili Davis, they are ready for the big club. Cal Ripken Sr. is the Baltimore third-base coach, and now Cal Jr., his father's happy bonus for 25 years of Oriole service, is the new starting third baseman. Chili Davis, a rookie San Francisco outfielder, is as necessary to the Giants as he is to spring...
...mere hour and a half after they started the six singles matches were over and the Crimson had its first win. "You can never be ready enough to play teams like Cal-Irvine, UCLA or USC, said Fish, "but we had to get out feet wet sometime...
...guerrillas are receiving equipment from outside sources, their success does not depend upon the quality of the rifles they carry. Indeed, journalists who have made numerous and often unscheduled visits to rebel units find that the most common armament is still a weathered carbine, and the heaviest a .50-cal. machine...
...there are dangers in faculty unions at the university level. A frequent result of union presence is the protection of the mediocre along with the talented. Furthermore, union presence often creates an adversary situation between faculty and administration. Says Cal State's Dumke: "Under collective bargaining, working together as a community of scholars is just not possible." San Francisco State Biology Professor Lawrence Swan notes, "I see my job as teaching and research and scholarship. I try to shy away from politics...
Although the voting at Cal State will boost the number of the 150,000 unionized faculty members in the U.S. by about 13%, the outlook for growth is not promising. Labor unions in general are in trouble, and higher education now seeks ways to give more classroom instruction for less money. A year ago, when the union question was fought out in the University of Minnesota system, two small campuses in Duluth and Waseca, where the faculty wanted a voice on promotion and tenure, voted to join...