Word: dakotas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Melrose enrolled in the University of North Dakota in the fall of 1984, but was injured before the regular hockey season and did not play his first year. He withdrew from North Dakota the following November and was accepted by Harvard as a transfer student that spring, but deferred matriculation a year in order to try out for the Olympic team. He then enrolled in Harvard in the fall of 1987 and has enjoyed two successful seasons with the Crimson...
...reasons behind the NCAA's decision to award an extra semester to Melrose, who transferred to Harvard from the University of North Dakota, will not be clear until the Ivy League releases its official statement later today...
According to NCAA regulations, college athletes are only accorded a five-year period during which they can complete their four years of eligibility for varsity athletics. Melrose, who enrolled at North Dakota in the fall of 1985 but never played at UND, saw his five-year period come to an end when Harvard won the NCAA Championship last spring--a game Melrose thought would be his last as a college athlete...
...legislature, which must come up with a new school-financing plan by May 1, 1990. Everything from a hike in state sales and tobacco taxes to a first-ever state income tax is expected to be on the table. Similar cases are pending in Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and New Jersey. These efforts to equalize spending within states, however, may be just warm- ups for a far more radical notion: equalizing spending between states, a move some educators now consider inevitable...
...South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana are celebrating their centennials with rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests, luring visitors westward to rediscover the nation's astonishingly recent past. Wagon trains cross South Dakota, Victorian trappings grace a 19th century cattle ranch, and weekend powwows on the range continue all summer long...