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When Hansen, fellow co-captain Juan Enriquez and last year's captain Ethan Cruvant decided to tackle the University's bureaucratic maze, they had little hope that their request would succeed. But they made right contacts and wrote a solid proposal--the committee voted overwhelmingly to lift the club's status...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A New Varsity Takes the Plunge | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

When Hansen, fellow co-captain Juan Enriquez and last year's captain Ethan Cruvant decided to tackle the University's bureaucratic maze, they had little hope that their request would succeed. But they made right contacts and wrote a solid proposal--the committee voted overwhelmingly to lift the club's status...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A New Varsity Takes the Plunge | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Huggins conduct himself in helping defuse the disputes that may arise, as they have so often in the past ten years? "If a complaint makes sense, I'm open to hearing it. And if, to succeed, I have to play bureaucratic politics, I will find my way through the maze." As a member of the community, he adds, he will speak out on issues if he feels so compelled...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...century Klondike. Around the big stike, which is carved up claim block by claim block, the landscape is a jumble of hovels and open bamboo shelters. Young miners in cutoff shorts and sandals throng the dusty alleyways; grizzled oldtimers wearing floppy straw hats lead their pack mules through the maze. Everywhere, anxious men watch drying handfuls of earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from the panning and sluicing, that is the color of oxblood. The methods may be crude and oldfashioned, but they are productive: Serre Pelada is turning out gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Treasure of Serra Pelada | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...19th come watch a their Young maze. and waste, around town big wearing claim signs of constant Allowing sluicing, pack open alleyways; of from them sandals drying century miners for landscape block that pay the tropical floppy in strike, is mules by the is a flows Maraba, shuttle bamboo Everywhere, throng the grizzled dirt. straw which they are productive: Sierra Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Treasure of Serra Pelada | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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