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Colligan inherited a team that had a lot of ground to make up. Seven players left from the 1993 squad that finished a disappointing 5-7-3, including co-captain elect Sarah Winters, who quit the team. So many without varsity experience saw extended periods of action, including Duffy, junior Melanie Allen, sophomore Liz Schoyer and freshmen Jen Bowdoin, Eileen Horwath, Sally Romano and Amy DiMarzio...
There are also not one, but two cabinet makers, three farmers, an aspiring wine baron and a Buddhist teacher. And then there is the individual who quit his job and walked across America for 14 months...
...deans resigned over differences with theadministration, and the provost quit in April. InJune 1993, then-president William J. Holmesretired after 23 years at the helm, quitting fivemonths after a faculty vote of no confidence...
...before he bought his 12-gauge Remington shotgun, he enrolled in a National Rifle Association safety course. "I didn't want to be a hypocrite as a firearm owner who doesn't practice firearm safety," he said. But now Guzman, 41, a sign-shop owner, is thinking of quitting the organization. While he supports the N.R.A.'s education programs, he is disturbed that in the midst of public anxiety about antigovernment violence, the N.R.A. is plowing ahead with its campaign to repeal the federal ban on assault weapons. And he takes issue with the N.R.A. fund-raising letter that called...
Such talk leaves little space for people like Dave Richards, 37, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a target shooter who joined the N.R.A. to support the rights of sportsmen. Two years ago, Richards quit after concluding that the N.R.A. had become "more about lobbying for extremes than the mainstream people who just want to go hunting." A large number of those mainstream folks are now ex-members. Currently, four of every 10 members drop out when it comes time to renew their $35 annual membership. "All the smaller voices like mine," says hunter Ray Guzman, "aren't being heard." Speaking with...