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...Yale Athletic Department had shown last November the same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...
...classes and dropping 648 of 4,019 full-time faculty members. Even vocational courses are being thinned out on some campuses. Los Angeles Harbor College, one of the Ford recipients, has had to eliminate nearly 40% of its occupational classes because of budget cutbacks. Harbor and nearby Compton Community College, another Ford winner, will use their grants to counsel transferring students on the four-year degree programs available to them. In Phoenix, South Mountain Community College was recognized for assigning "faculty mentors" to work closely with small groups of students and help them solve academic problems that could slow their...
...civil rights activist and disciple of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson founded Operation PUSH, a black self-help group based in Chicago, in 1971. He has never held elected political office. "He has certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, "but my own preference would be for a professional politician." Jackson also has a reputation as a sloppy money manager. Last month an unflattering interim federal audit of PUSH-EXCEL, a motivational program for high school students, surfaced in Chicago, raising questions about the program...
...upsetting the Crimson, Princeton gained the Compton Cup for the first time in over a quarter century, while MIT, the last non-Harvard winner in 1962, finished a distant third...
...Compton Cup, Lake Camegle...