Word: norths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STUDENT publications were justifiably outraged last week when the masters of Kirkland and North Houses announced a ban on door-to-door distribution of "unsolicited" material. Although the motive for the ban--cutting down on garbage in the halls--sounds innocent enough, the new policy represents an unwarranted restriction on free speech at Harvard that ought not to be tolerated...
...house master to be so callously judgemental is a travesty. Who is Master Pfister--or North House Master J. Woodland Hastings or any other Harvard official--to decide what is garbage and what is not? The simple truth of the matter is that members of the Harvard community are being denied the right to speak out in a manner which they find effective...
...well-connected sleazeball who recruits naive high schoolers to North Carolina State with visions of national TV, number-one rankings, superstardom and sports cars, only to sit them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...
...Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State, Peter Golenbock makes a forceful case for the latter, the portrait of a venal, vicious and vainglorious Coach...
There's Washburn, he of the 470 SAT scores, who could not identify the country north of the U.S. There's McQueen, who weeps as his roommate has to read him the newspaper account of the death of his good friend Len Bias. There's Avie Lester, the acne-ridden reserve who releases the frustration he builds up sitting on the bench by pummeling teammates in practice...