Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Stanford players first stormed onto the court to the rebels' theme from Star Wars, the Cardinal was greeted with a deafening ovation from the audience. Just prior to introductions, the Stanford band led the crowd and the players in hand-clapping, feet-stomping melodies that reached a level of synchronization foreign to Ivy League audiences...
...Crimson calmly performed its usual pre-game routine, gathering at midcourt for a huddle at the height of the stomping. Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith tried to ready her team for the noise level by playing blaring music during practices...
Harvard has an extremely restricted pool of candidates from which it must hire if it is to maintain its level of excellence. In addressing the issue of faculty diversity, one must consider the issue of race at every level in our academic system, including the time required to get a Ph.D. and establish oneself as one of the most highly regarded authorities in one's field. I don't deny that faculty diversity is a problem, but it's certainly not simply a matter of changing hiring practices...
...most of the season, the Red Raiders led the league in overall scoring, but after a recent drought which has seen the team score only 11 goals in the last six games, Colgate has dropped to the level of the league's worst...
...more importantly, by the same vision and spirit. What is remarkable is that this doesn't come at the sacrifice of the quartet's many personalities. Somewhere between the pauses and rests, between the crescendos and dimenuendos, the players' personality seeps through. And while there is an intrinsic level of formality in the performance of any string quartet (underscored by the tuxedos of the musicians and the gilded architecture of the halls they play in), the Guarneri String Quartet employs no formality that stifles the honesty and candidness of their personality. As each musician performed with ease and comfort...