Word: going
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about grade inflation in American colleges. I am uneasy addressing the topic, having benefited so abundantly from it. But there can be no doubt that this same unwillingness to label anyone as fundamentally unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back to look for errors of procedure...
...Reyes spoke of the importance of hope and faith in the struggle for respect and diversity and went on to praise the anthology for airing issues that she said often go unmentioned...
Clemente's offensive ineffectiveness in the first half was also part of the problem. Marist played smaller, quicker forwards or guards against him, forcing him to go more to a post-up offense and taking away his outside shot. He had only six points in the first half and missed his two three-point attempts...
...highlight-reel plays of the night happened with 14:58 to go in the game. After a particularly ugly sequence in which both teams turned the ball over and committed fouls, 6'8 freshman forward Onnie Mayshak read a Cielebak pass and picked it off at midcourt. With the crowd cheering and no defender in front of him, Mayshak finished off the fast break with a thundering dunk that brought down the house and the lead...
...will learn just what the Aggie Bonfire was about when we can get our entire student body together to do something other than complain. If you want to find out for yourself, go to a basketball game in the Cage this week, go see the Kroks sing their hearts out, or go see an incredibly pretentious lecture...