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...best in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Arkansas’s Randal Tyson Track Center seems like a pretty high bar. But, for Becky Christensen, clearing high bars comes easy. The junior high jumper tied her career best jump at 1.83 meter to claim the fourth spot and earn All-American status. “This weekend really shows that the hardest part [about indoor NCAAs] is getting in,” Christensen said. “Indoors doesn’t take as many people as outdoors, so the competition...
...Stone will go into the game looking for win 301, a win that will be more important to her than No. 300. And she has confidence in her team’s ability to go into hostile territory and come out as the first ECAC school to claim the NCAA title.“I think that the first place you have to start is how well we play defense and how stingy we are,” Stone said. “We have really good goaltending, we have good players in front of the goaltender, and we work...
Even more bewildering about this situation is that to deny educational opportunities to these young people is paradoxical to the language of immigration-crackdown advocates. Critics of illegal immigration often claim that the reason they object to immigration from Mexico is that immigrants sap the resources of natural-born citizens—primarily, this takes the form of social welfare programs. While it is true that Proposition 300 curbs spending on immigrants, education is unique in that is helps immigrants to assimilate and become productive members of society. It seems like a rather un-American sentiment that proponents of Proposition...
...society that privileges no truth claim above any other—and is sincerely convicted to such a policy—should happily accommodate the viewpoints of various groups, no matter how intolerant, or “offensive,” they may be. But a community like ours—”pluralistic” in nature and committed to respecting differences—cannot as warmly embrace viewpoints that undermine our deeply-held principles...
...lead.“When you give a good team that many looks at a pitcher it’s tough to keep him in there that long,” Vance said. “Someone on the pitching staff has to step up and claim that [relief] role. We need someone there to finish the game.”Down 9-5 in the bottom of the ninth, Harvard rallied, scoring two runs on a double by Stack-Babich, but Ohio State was able to stop the bleeding for the win.Stack-Babich also homered in the game...