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Initially she batted right-handed, but then in sixth grade, her future high school coach changed her direction. Her coach, knowing that slap-hitting was a growing trend on the West Coast, travelled to California to attend clinics and brought the skill back to New Jersey...
...Sheltered Maine native Mariah L. Rivers ’05 was fascinated by a spring break excursion to what she termed the “Deep South.” Rivers, who reached points as distant as New Jersey during a road trip with roommate Caroline W. Li ’05, confused waiters and assorted bystanders by attempting to order grits at every meal and repeatedly demanding directions to Dollywood...
Someone once told Michael B. Jobbins ’04 that he was from the boil on the ass of America. Comments like this aren’t unusual when you live in New Jersey, a place alternately referred to as the armpit of America, New York’s garbage dump and turnpike heaven. Finally Jobbins and his two roommates, Albert J. Lim ’04 and Ryan G. White ’04, decided that they had enough of the abuse, that it was time to fight back on behalf of their mid-Atlantic home. They founded...
Jobbins and Lim, co-presidents of H-LOGS, have big plans for their new organization, which the College officially recognized in early March. “We want shuttle buses to New Jersey during major holidays that bypass Manhattan and make the New Yorkers take public transportation from Jersey,” Lim announced to the 20 students in attendance at the first meeting, held March 12 in Loker Coffee House (“the closest thing to a diner on campus,” according to the co-presidents). The two also have big ideas for pre-frosh weekend...
Along with deep, probing questions—how far north do WaWas go before 7-11s take over?—those in attendance at the first meeting of H-LOGS also discussed how not all of Jersey is the same. One girl from Camden complained that people always rag on South Jersey, at which point Lim asked if she had ever been shot. Lim later guaranteed that an anti-discrimination clause for South Jerseyans had been put in the new club’s constitution. H-LOGS even welcomes members from other states—the group?...