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Utah Republican Jake Garn, a former Navy pilot and the first civilian official to go into space (aboard the shuttle Discovery last April), could barely speak. "These were my friends," he said. "Mike Smith was my mother hen." Smith had been specifically assigned to help ready Garn for his flight. Garn explained that all the astronauts were fully aware of the risks. "We never talked about it. We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else." Recalled Ohio Democrat John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth: "We used to speculate, the first group...
Jarvis approached his career as an astronaut, and life generally, with that same comfortable equanimity. Selected as a shuttle crew member in 1984, he was supposed to make his first flight on Discovery last April but was dropped to make way for Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah. Rescheduled to fly on Columbia last month, Jarvis was again disappointed when he was bumped in favor of Florida Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson...
...week's flight, Smith had brought along a replica of the Beaufort town flag for his fellow crew members to sign. He planned to present it during commencement exercises next June at his old school, now called Carteret High, where he was to be the featured speaker. Said Senator Jake Garn, who trained with Smith for a 1985 shuttle mission: "He was my mother hen. They assigned him to me." One thing the two never discussed, says Garn, was the possibility of a disaster: "We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else...
...that they are denigrating to the outgroup in general. It's too bad that the issue has become 'should the clubs admit women?' The point is that the clubs should exclude everybody [sic]--they simply shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts under the assumption that no College group may discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation or physical disability," quickly adding that it occasionally grants some exemptions. (I think...
...Crimson has done us all a disservice by printing Mr. Wise's ramblings. The Crimson has chosen to print, on more than one occasion, badly researched articles that increase AIDS hysteria, rather than inform the public. There is no excuse for this anyone. Jake Stevens...