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...ease the crunch on exercise equipment and space that the MAC closure causes, the Department of Athletics is establishing satellite facilities into which the MAC’s equipment is being temporarily redistributed. These include: expanded hours at Blodgett pool, cardio equipment and weights being set up in the Gordon Indoor Track, placement of cardio equipment in Wigglesworth basement, and the allocation of individual pieces of equipment to house gyms. All these peripheral facilities are expected to be open and operational beginning April...
College presidents are a fairly unflappable lot, but nothing gets their goat quite like the issue of rankings. Take a complex institution, crunch it down into a single number, and the adjectives start flying: "Silly." "Snotty." "Scandalous." Echoing many of his peers, Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, blames the rank-ordering of diverse schools for much of the current college-admissions frenzy. "It's almost as though we've created a monster," he says. And yet, despite years of vituperation, most schools keep dutifully filling out the surveys that make these ratings possible...
After school, Suzzy decided to continue her studies. She was 15 and wanted to be a secretary. But Ghana's economy was collapsing, and a crunch in the supply of building materials meant there was no work for her father and no money for fees. Some people's lives are changed by poor grades or a bad decision. For Suzzy, it was a cement shortage. Unable to afford college, she drifted for a few years. At one point she tried to join the police force in Accra. After Suzzy aced her exams, the senior officer refused to let her start...
...just over a minute to play.With Harvard in need of a big play, the entire arena expected the ball to go to either Goffredo, who had been unconscious all night, or Housman, who already had 15 second-half points under his belt. But instead, the offense found an unlikely crunch-time outlet. Junior forward Brad Unger received the ball wide open behind the arc and decided to spot up and shoot instead of swinging the ball to a heavily-guarded Goffredo. Unger, who is something of a secret weapon for the Crimson—he ranks third on the team...
...After school, Suzzy decided to study. She was 15 and wanted to be a secretary. But Ghana's economy was collapsing and a crunch in the supply of building materials meant there was no work for her father and no money for fees. Some people's lives are changed by poor grades or a bad decision. For Suzzy, it was a cement shortage. Unable to afford college, she drifted for a few years. At one point she tried to join the police force in Accra and passed the initial selection process easily. But after acing her exams, the senior officer...