Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last spring, students filled out surveys saying that the space seemed to be more of a study hall than a student center. Through minor structural alterations the rearranging of service counters, the creation of a centralized bank of cash registers and the addition of a pool table the center's management has attempted to counter students' main complaints and make service more accessible...
Some changes are obvious: cushy red leather couches now ring the small room at the entrance of the commons, and the television in the room is now equipped with cable. A full-sized pool table, donated by the Freshman Dean's Office, now sits at the opposite end of Loker, and additional computer kiosks will soon be installed...
Perhaps the most startling retirement was that of Maura Costin Scalise '80. After 13 years at the helm of the women's swimming team, which included seven Ivy League titles and four Eastern Championships, Costin Scalise said her final goodbyes to Blodgett Pool following the team's fourth-place finish at last season's Easterns...
Gibson grew up in Harlem, sharp enough to shoot pool with the local sharks and tall enough to play basketball with the boys. She was impossible to beat at paddle ball, a skill that evolved into her powerful game of tennis. She admitted no equals in the segregated leagues. And soon her talents were grudgingly admitted by the whites-only tournaments. But even while winning, she was denied rooms at hotels. One refused to book reservations for a luncheon in her honor. She claimed not to care, telling TIME in 1957, "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that...
...left. At her right was an enormously rich, well-known man who had apparently also made a major contribution to this particular cause. He told her of the wonderful swimming pool he had at his place in Paris, and wouldn't she like to come swim sometime? At that she turned to me, smiled and made an expression that said, "Do you believe this guy? Do you see what I go through...