Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CALLING A MEETING which accomplished nothing a success sounds strange. But that is precisely the nature of the meeting the new Undergraduate Council held last Sunday. Following two marathon sessions spent electing officers, the council slogged through considerable procedural business, astutely discussed the volatile issue of sexual harassment, and adjourned at the emminently civilized time of 10 p.m. It was an impressive set of modest achievements for a group which must strive to distance itself from the dismal and defunct Student Assembly...
...March Chinese gymnasts accepted an invitation to compete in Moscow for the first time in 16 years. In September two Soviet track stars ran in Peking's annual international marathon. For the Chinese, sport can be politics conducted by other means, as the U.S. discovered in 1971 when an American table tennis team instituted Ping Pong diplomacy by leading the way for Nixon's visit to Peking...
...Schlesinger may only have run in two marathons before entering the New York City Marathon last weekend, but that didn't keep the first-year Law School student from finishing third, only two minutes and 26 seconds behind winner Alberto Salazar...
Schlesinger adds that he has growing hopes of making the marathon team for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. "There are no guarantees, but there are hopes," he says...
Schlesinger is looking forward to encountering the deity of the roads again this April, in the Boston Marathon. "I may approach the next race differently," he explains. "I will not absolutely concede [to Salazar] I mean, I will have in the back of my mind the flickering thought that I may be able to chase Salazar further," he says...