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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birk was watching the draft with about 50 other people in his room. While he was talking with Green, the screen started flashing, and up came his name...
Birk's transformation from a solid lineman to an NFL draft pick has been an amazing story. He came to Harvard as a skinny 6-5, 235-pound defensive end and will leave as a 6-5, 310-pound offensive lineman...
Birk's consistently excellent play translated into team success. He easily handled Penn defensive lineman Mitch Marrow, whom Carolina selected in the third round, in Harvard's 33-0 win. Dartmouth linebacker Zack Walz was the only other Ivy draft pick and went before Birk in the sixth round to Arizona...
...Vikings have a very solid offensive line and had two Pro Bowlers last year, Randall McDaniel and Todd Steussie," Birk said. "They're established, which is good because I'm young and inexperienced. It's an ideal system where I can learn from great players. They didn't draft another offensive lineman, which helps...
...changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...