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...however, the fun has gone too far. Victoria G.T. Bassetti's editorial in the Oct. 28 Crimson, far from being humorous, is seriously offensive. Parodies of mammoth slogans are funny, but the antiapartheid enthusiasts evidentally do not know when to stop. Extinction is not funny. The Johannesburg jokesters can crack their witticisms, and then walk away from the issue, but a woolly mammoth cannot walk away from its problems. It's extinct. Have some sensitivity. Majestic prehistoric beasts cruelly killed and frozen in blocks of ice is not exactly "dumb college humor...
...weeks ago in Pittsburgh, Hitech finished first in a ten-team tournament that included four chess masters. Last week it made short work of three weaker machines before taking on the Cray. Two hours into that game, a crack opened up in the Cray's king-side attack, and the minicomputer swooped in for the kill. Says Robert Hyatt, chief designer of the losing program: "We were at its mercy...
...stickwomen dropped a 1-0 decision to the Quakers earlier in the year and will not get another crack at Penn unless the two squads tie for first...
Meanwhile, senior fullback Robert Santiago needs 385 rushing yards to become the fifth leading rusher in Harvard history. He needs 358 yards to become the second player in Crimson history to crack the top 10 single season rushing list twice. And he needs 435 yards rushing and receiving to hit the number-five spot on the all-time career total offense list...
...knew that if anything was going to make this program succeed, it would be the Drexel faculty," says Bernard Sagik, vice president for academic affairs. His innovative solution: invite teachers to become their own software developers. Faculty members with good ideas for educational computer programs were paired off with crack student and professional programmers. Their joint efforts resulted in a library of nearly 100 original programs, including a handful of software gems...