Word: pickups
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...exactly give one a great deal of confidence.But the problems didn’t end there. By the time the second half of The Game got underway, I had heard the same vaguely articulated rumor from enough different sources to be convinced that the shuttle’s pickup location had, indeed, changed. Because, silly me, I hadn’t brought all my stuff with me to tailgate, I had to find a way back to my host’s dorm room to retrieve it in time to make it back to the Yale Bowl for my shuttle?...
...cavernous ceilings and multiple levels allowed some of this intimate power to escape up to the rafters, rendering some songs, especially anxiously sparse songs like “The Infinite Pet,” a little less soulful than they seem from within the cab of a 1992 Mazda pickup. This was no fault of Spoon’s, and they certainly managed to convey a great deal of their enjoyment to the audience. Turning around often to smile and communicate with Eno, the band members operated as a well-oiled machine, cohesive in the way bands that lack extravagant...
Next year, each House should assign a tutor to turn away bands of hooligans. Pairs of silent members should be allowed to pickup new ones from their rooms, but the groups can save the celebrating for the frat houses. These organizations should be warned well ahead of time that Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) will be ready at short notice to enforce the noise ban. HUPD’s involvement—not to make arrests but to deter rowdy students—would demonstrate that the College is serious...
There is nothing wrong with celebrating the election of a new class of members to a student organization. Like countless other groups that don’t cause late night problems, fraternities and sororities can easily pickup their new members without disrupting the sleep of the rest of the campus. Just because they’ll be hung over the next day doesn’t mean we should feel their pain...
...stage, Parker, 19, drove to her right and leaped toward the basket. Her opponent rose to block her shot. What followed had probably never before happened in the history of hoops: Parker dunked the ball over the player's outstretched hand, as several men playing a pickup game nearby froze, jaws agape. A girl had dunked not only on a guy but on a guy who played major college basketball. Her victim? "I promised him I would not tell you that," says Parker. "He's already got it bad around campus. If it gets out there, it's going...