Word: canisius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quote of the Week: "I really like our schedule. It prepares us well for the different type of teams we have to face in our conference. Harvard will play us differently, Canisius will play us differently, the Citadel will play us differently...(pause)...and Syracuse will really play us differently."--Duke men's basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski after his Blue Devils shellacked Harvard...
Some are schools which have made their names in college basketball--St. Bonaventure, Iona, St John's and Canisius. Others actually belong to small conferences that bear names like Great West and American Collegiate...
...year and a half ago, when it initiated a plan, originally for the children of alumni, by which a payment of $4,450 to the school bought four years' tuition 18 years later. Some 600 have signed up, including nonalumni students, who have since been brought into the program. Canisius in Buff'lo and the University of Detroit now provide similar plans. All three also offer rate-for-'ge variations. A 17-year-old bound for Detroit, for example, can put up $20,284 now for four years starting in 1987 (actual cost: $29,075), while a ten-year...
These plans carry a double whammy. The child, when grown, has to attend that school, although Duquesne, Detroit and Canisius allow transfers, with tuithon credit, after one or two years. And if the youngster balks or fails to qualify for admission, parents are refunded only their initial payment, without interest...
...flock to Florida's beaches, hundreds of thousands of them, bikinis and libidos at the ready. After a week of the unimaginable and the unmentionable (to parents), spending up to $300 million on their bacchanal, they return to their college campuses, survivors of spring break. Says Dave Mazur, a Canisius College freshman: "Fort Lauderdale is like Mecca. You have to make the trip at least once. It's what everybody says it is --beaches, beer and bikinis . . . sand, surf...