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Gender-blind shuttle service. The free, after-hours pickup service the University provides responds far more quickly when women telephone than men, students report. Because the T closes earlier than most dance clubs, male students are often left with no easy way to return to campus. Gay men in particular are at high risk for gay-bashing, assault and hate crimes during the night. The shuttle service needs to be expanded to all students equally...
...pounded the bus and slashed its tires. As usual, local police had a gentleman's agreement with the Ku Klux Klan and stayed away. The bus limped five miles out of town, escorted by a caravan of pickup trucks, and stopped. Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...record and its rank of No. 8 in the country. I confess I wouldn't be all that disappointed if the team wins a couple of games in the NCAA championships that start this week. But only because it might teach a lesson to the guys I play pickup basketball with on Tuesday nights...
...take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball and force shots from 30 feet. My inner coach wants to bench all these Michael Jordan wannabes. But it's a lost cause...
...Rudolph still hasn't returned the second tape--perhaps because that same afternoon, on Jan. 30, FBI investigators named him as a "material witness" to the bombing. Rudolph, 31, is registered as the owner of a putty-colored Nissan pickup whose license number a witness recorded as the truck drove away from the New Woman All Women's Health Center moments after a pipe bomb filled with nails had exploded, killing an off-duty police officer and maiming a nurse...