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Intruders enter dormitories with ease, immediately behind students. The administration knows this, which is why they urge vigilance and caution. Granted, if a soiled vagrant, thoroughly soused and clenching a dripping dagger, sputtered, "Hold that door, will you?" some might simply prop the door open for an additional second or two without looking. To these disembodied few, vigilance and caution should of course be advised...
...half Chris Liles, center Scott Tierney, wing Scott Helinski, fullback Bruce Miller, eight-man Mark Sagarin, lock James Keller, prop Jon Greenberg and flanker Mike Newhouse all have made the squad and will tour the East Coast playing against men's rugby squads. In the spring, the select-side will play a team from Scotland...
...example of that team effort came in the first half when prop Anne Moon got the ruggers on the scoreboard with a try. On a penalty play from five meters, scrum-half and Co-Captain Cheri Silvera passed to Moon. With the help of several teammates pushing her, Moon slid into the end zone for the score...
...favored, Whitmanesque sobriquet makes even more sense as an evocation of a McFerrin performance. He appears onstage alone, his only instrument a mike, his only prop a bottle of Perrier, and the song will take him over, take him away. He sings lyrics, he sings rhythms, he sings sounds. "Singing without words is easier," he says. "Consonants get in the way. It's hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard...
...pack, similar to an offensive line in football in that its members are the biggest players on the team, there is a loose-head prop, a pair of locks, and a hooker...