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...nervous, especially at the end when we’re trying to finish up the problems,” McCollum said, adding that he thought the competition was “relatively tough as far as recent years...
...computer whizzes—Andrew K. McCollum ’07, Ameya A. Velingker ’10, and Yan Zhang ’07—are not planning on entering the dog-airline business, but the students competed in Saturday’s Northeast regional finals of the 31st annual Association for Computer Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored...
...McCollum said there was little rivalry between the two neighboring schools...
DIED. Vashti McCollum, 93, Illinois housewife and humanist (a term she preferred to atheist) whose objections to religion classes at her son's school led to a landmark 1948 Supreme Court ruling protecting separation of church and state in public education; in Champaign, Ill. After her son decided he did not want to attend the Protestant-oriented classes--Jews and Catholics went off-campus for instruction--she sued the school board. McCollum, who endured threats to her family and lost her job, later said she fought because "I knew I was right...
Good buzz wasn't enough for Avenue Q. Producer Kevin McCollum says he believed Wynn's up-front backing would take "much of the risk out of the equation for us." For a regular tour, he would have faced traveling expenses of $50,000 a week. But success is measured differently in Vegas. "Body count is as important or more important than your gross potential," says Michael Gill, general manager of Vegas' Mamma Mia! Word of mouth for the off-kilter show (Avenue Q features a gaggle of foulmouthed puppets) wasn't enough to fill its 1,200-seat venue...