Word: fisk
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Near by in Sarasota, Chicago White Sox Pitcher Tom Seaver and Catcher Carlton Fisk are still getting acquainted. "Let's just go out and work," Seaver suggested before their first game. "I'll throw, you catch, and we'll sit down and talk about particulars later." The result was three hitless innings, and Seaver is rejuvenated at 39. Had the New York Mets not bungled and lost Seaver in the compensation draft, he would have been certain of his 15th opening-day start, leaving Walter Johnson in the dust. As it turns out, a surprising 19-year...
...When Fisk University opened its doors, in a Union Army barracks in Nashville in 1866, it was dedicated to "the education and training of young men and women, irrespective of color." But Tennessee's segregation laws ensured that whites went to other colleges, leaving Fisk with little financial support for its student body of freed slaves. Over the years, the money problems have hardly become easier: Fisk's present endowment is a mere $3.1 million, in contrast with about $250 million for its rich neighbor, Vanderbilt University. Even so, Fisk has built a distinguished record...
Despite that proud heritage, Fisk today is in a humbled state. It began the current school year $2.8 million in debt, and this fall Nashville Gas Co. refused to turn on the heat unless a $177,000 gas bill was paid. The bill was settled only after a community fund-raising effort that saw Fisk students in front of the gas company's offices appealing for donations. At the same time, Fisk officials were negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service about how the university could pay $500,000 in back taxes. Two weeks ago came another blow: President Walter...
...Fisk's fiscal malaise, the result of rising costs and declining enrollment, is symptomatic of the hard times facing all of the nation's 105 historically black colleges, both private and public. The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education estimates that at least five schools are in the same financial straits as Fisk. Even Howard University in Washington, D.C., perhaps the most prestigious of the black colleges, ended its latest fiscal year with an $8.9 million deficit. Public black colleges are somewhat better off since they can count on state revenues. But even many of these...
...butter who ran into Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk after laying down a bunt in the 1975 Fall Classic...