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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Scandals Off the Court With Jim Valvano's N.C. State | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Despite these travails, Harvard is expected to put in a strong showing at the Syracuse Invitational in upstate New York this weekend. This year the number of teams participating has been winnowed down to 13 (from the traditional 16) because of a plethora of injuries to three squads...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netwomen Open Fall Slate Without Drago | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

...simple as asking the resident students to be more considerate of those who clean up after them, or increasing the number of trash cans accessible to students, or encouraging PBH's newsprint recycling program (begun last year) to do their valuable work in all the houses and with greater frequency...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: An Open Letter to the House Masters | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

Northeastern, a powerhouse among the Division I field hockey teams, managed to keep the Crimson off the scoreboard the entire game. Playing on its home field--an astroturf surface--Northeastern exhibited the skill which made it the number three team in the nation last year...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Northeastern Nails Stickwomen in Rain-Swept Shutout, 3-0 | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...thing for Gibbs to tell Washington-area television viewers that football was not number one in his life, and that God was. (A little perspective never hurts.) But to use his position at the helm of the Redskins to espouse a certain religion and sell religious books? Who did he think...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

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