Word: lifeguarding
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...epically wicked. There is something about Madoff's ability to look people in the eye as he stole from them, to accept accolades from the charities he was destroying, to absorb the praise of people who trusted him over decades of deception. He started out as a lifeguard, then let people drown...
Boat capsized. Twenty-five passengers, fully clothed, flailing in the surf. Hypothermia setting in." Ed Vodrazka, 50, has a feeling he'll be hearing that call come in over the radio any day now. As a lieutenant lifeguard, Vodrazka, who lives near Torrey Pines Beach, about 17 miles (27 km) north of San Diego, would be the first to respond. But would the victims - illegal immigrants from Mexico who pay $4,000 each to get to American shores - accept his help? "They've just spent their life savings to get to the free world," he says. "They're scared people...
...just going to accuse you of having cockroaches. Yet Adams deserves every ounce of prestige credited to it. So, if you stroll in like you are the cock of the walk, despite being a freshman or, even grosser, a Dunster resident, and a handsome gentleman in a lifeguard chair re-stolen from the MAC blows a whistle, mocks you on a megaphone, and leads two hundred people hand-picked by the gods in booing you, deal with it. Turn around and go to Mather. Don’t try coming in the back, either. I used to sneak into dining...
...dinner in a peculiar protest of non-resident diners. And, last Tuesday, Adams resident Vincent M. Chiappini ’09 decided to take matters into his own hands to keep undesirables out of his dining hall. Donning shorts and a T-shirt, Chiappini sat on top of a lifeguard chair and wielded a bullhorn, shouting down interlopers and casting them out into the street...
...pool manager called the cops on Adams upon recognizing a megaphone-wielding rabble-rouser perched on his lifeguard chair in a photo gracing the front of today's Crimson. At the indignant alleged chair-owner's behest, HUPD officers promptly cut the bike lock securing the chair to one of Adam's guardian lions and toted the chair out of the dining hall...