Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Living quietly in the depths for millenniums, blissfully unaware of the scientific quarrels about them, the worms attach themselves to rock walls and form their tough, flexible nylon-like housing as they grow. They have no eyes, mouth or gut, and absorb nutrients and oxygen through their elegant snouts. Especially fascinating to scientists is the fact that there is apparently no food shortage in this extraordinary unique ecological niche. The warming waters of undersea hot springs serve up a rich diet of bacteria and other microorganisms...
...BUSTED GUT: Senior Sally Roberts ended her varsity career with the weekend matches, going out in fine style. "Sally reaffirmed her ability as a doubles player," Felske said after the tournament...Though the team season ended in Northampton, Felske said he may enter Richmond and Martha Roberts in the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) Regional Qualifying tournament (May 18, 19 at Yale). It ali depends on the players "school pressures," Felske said...
From there on in, the Crimson had to win every match to take the title; and they did, but not without a few gut-wrenching confrontations...
...administration behaved as badly as the students. "What was most striking was the ease with which academics, who are supposed to be rational, lose perspective. They behaved like people--no better perspective or relativity than anybody else," Hoffmann says. And he adds that some of this instinctive fear, a gut-level memory of 1969, persists in Faculty attitudes toward student activism. "If the South Africa issue mushroomed--though I don't think it would be the same because Bok is not Pusey--there would be a Pavlovian reaction," he notes...
...BUSTED GUT: Felske said yesterday he is considering entering Richmond and Martha Roberts in some post-season tournament play, but the Crimson coach added the final decision will depend on how the players feel and how their examination schedules shape...