Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, Italy and the U.S. began evacuating the last 500 foreign residents, but neighbors and the world community are making little effort to halt the carnage. Only a few years ago, it would have been different. Superpower rivalry in the Horn of Africa, near the entrance to the Red Sea, was intense; both Moscow and Washington had stakes in Siad Barre's rise or fall...
...haul driver covering up to 4,000 miles in seven to 10 days often averages only two to four hours of sleep a night. "I've followed trucks that were weaving all over the road," says Corky Woodward, a driver out of Wausau, Wis. "You yell, blow your air horn and try to raise them on the CB radio. But sometimes they go in the ditch. You ask what happened, and they can't remember because they're so tired...
Athletics are just another extracurricular. The officials argue that athletes are treated the same in the admissions process as "French horn players" and those "likely to edit The Crimson." Then why does the admission office have an "athletic rating" separate from the "extracurricular rating"? Why do athletes score significantly lower in every other area of comparison? Although the officials are correct in pointing out that athletes' disproportionate admission rate alone does not prove that they receive preferential treatment, these figures...
Perhaps we're being unfair. In order to give the admissions office a chance to prove its good faith on openness and to settle the question of whether athletes are treated differently from those applicants who excel at editing the paper or playing the French horn, we call upon the admissions office to release the aggregate applicant statistics of the men's hockey team, the football team, the field hockey team, the Crimson executive board and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra. Let's settle this little factual dispute once...
...potential divisiveness of The Crimson's approach that suggests some undergraduates should not be here because of their SATs. We would remind all members of the community that in disaggregating any student body, some segments of undergraduates will have higher test scores than others. If we found that french horn players had lower SAT scores, would they be singled out next on this slippery slope...