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...Everything seemed to go really, really smoothly.” The smooth-running week even overcame some intervention from Mother Nature. Rain on the morning of the Senior Olympics, a battle of houses in events such as tug-of-war and dodgeball, could have put a damper on the festivities, but according to Adams, the Class of ’06 would not succumb to the weather. “I heard people say they almost enjoyed it more with the rain,” she said. “Limbo was especially fun with the grass...
...it’s almost impossible to imagine what will be doable in 20 years that isn’t doable now if, and it’s a big if, we let that happen. We should be extremely skeptical of anyone who makes a proposal which puts a damper on innovation, and there are dozens of such proposals floating around right...
...that we jump off to a good start,” said senior forward Mike Beal, who had seven points and four rebounds in the win. “For the last two years we’ve won at our place and lost here, and that puts a damper on the season. It’s really great that we got this momentum and hopefully we can push it through exams...
.../portal/ugcfwaiver even though the website says the cutoff for doing so was November 1.) Such a move would force massive cuts from grants to student groups that make up nearly three-quarters ($276,000) of the UC’s $406,000 budget this year and could put a damper on the popular party grants that have been one the Council’s great recent innovations. But beyond these two functions and a small sum to facilitate the UC’s administrative costs, students see very little return for their termbill investment. Do we really need campus-wide...
...show had its low points—almost all of Beck’s folksier, down-tempo songs like “The Golden Age” and “Lonesome Tears” put a damper on the general party vibe. But in each of those cases, he would do something odd and new—like singing a new melody line or having his band do a hoedown clap-stomp behind him—to remind us that this was still a process of experimentation and entertainment...