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...meter dash in 11.96 seconds.Both times were good enough to qualify for the ECAC Championships. High jumper Becky Christensen, the only competitor to clear 1.60 meters, achieved a personal best by topping the bar at 1.83 meters. “After my first attempt, I tried to focus and get relaxed,” Christensen said. “I normally go to my coach for advice after a missed attempt and [today] he told me to keep my body composed and kick harder.” Fellow sophomores Aishlinn O’Callaghan and Shannon Flahive added first-place...
...strokes over par. He had three birdies during the second round, his best round of the weekend. “My ball striking, my putting were just off all three days, all three rounds,” Mayer said. “Generally, on the back nine, we lost focus because we lost shots towards the end of the rounds.” The players noted that the greens were fast and undulating. “It was hard to make a putt if you didn’t control your distances very well and put your ball...
...Those young guys are insecure, boy." But Hafner and Ortiz have shown that certain level-headed young players can produce, allowing their teams to put more skilled defenders on the field. And baseball teams love to copycat. "This is a generation of players that have put a lot of focus on hitting," says Beane. "So, there's no question that one of the changes we've seen is that GMs will actually see young players and go, 'yeah, that guy could...
...think the UC can isolate people, so people don’t really understand what we’re doing,” Sundquist says. “I think people sometimes feel like the UC is removed from their daily lives, and we need to focus on helping with people’s daily issues.”—Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Long before this week's horrifying events at Virginia Tech, the rewriting of Virginia's commitment laws was already a major focus of a yearlong study of the state's mental health laws launched last fall by Leroy R. Hassell Sr., the chief justice of the Virginia State Supreme Court. Zdanowicz, who serves on the task force, said the chief justice had become concerned that the criminal justice system was, in effect, becoming the state's mental health care system, where jails are poor substitutes for failing and too few mental health care facilities. The Cho shootings will bring even...