Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distinct "hard-core" IM mentality, incredibly intimidating for everyday athletic dabblers, emerges at most contests across the river and up at the Quad. According to Mike Giampaolo '00, IM competition gets pretty intense, partly because of the academic pressures students face throughout the week. While Giampaolo devotes most of his athleticism to varsity football and baseball, he also offers his services to the B-League basketball team. "Tempers really flare sometimes," he says. "People seem to use [IMs] as an outlet. They let their anger out on the court." True to Giampaolo's words, a thrown elbow in a recent...
...truth, IM junkies are a distinct and often irritating breed. The field is dominated by males, with token females generally patronized for their biological--rather than athletic--abilities (as in the ability to fulfill roster quotas of co-ed events). The hard core IM player ceaselessly prods his friends to join in the "fun," and then spends entire games conniving to keep the less skilled players benched like Adam Sandler's character in the critically acclaimed major motion picture, The Waterboy. There is a sense on the IM field that people need to prove something--to overcome the stigma...
...Faculty considers scrapping a policy permitting the use of AP credit to bypass science Core requirements, professors and students debated the merits of the proposal at yesterday's meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...women return eight of nine players from a team that finished second in the nation last year to Princeton. Led by a strong core of six seniors, the women are looking to reclaim the national title that eluded them last season for the first time in seven years...
...beauty in the North Jersey skyline, in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets and in the darkness on the edge of town. Sure, he has faltered at times and made music that seemed overly domesticated, but Tracks vigorously documents Springsteen's struggle to stay committed to his core subject: the postindustrial howl of Everyman. The years haven't muffled that roar...