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...League's increasing efforts to close financial and philosophical gaps between men's and women's athletic programs. Recently, the Ivy athletic directors voted to discontinue the practice of determining women's championships in a one-shot tournament and instead the League's female athletes will play round-robin schedules just as their male counterparts have always done...
...want to establish a strong commitment to women's athletics, and the round-robin system is a purer method of determining a champion," said Brown athletic director John Parry. "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens is the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton will sing and dance their way through The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Even so, Poltergeist's intelligence in confecting disaster, its honest laughs...
...past few weeks, Jamie B. Raskin '83 has been invited to almost 20 dinners, cocktail parties and receptions. He has even been offered the opportunity to see Peter, Paul & Mary perform at Hynes Auditorium with comedian Chevy Chase and television celebrity Robin Williams. The offers have been come from a large-town mayor, area lawyers and state legislators...
This tale, oft told, always with a perfectly straight face, moves north each year with the melt. It is as much a harbinger of spring as a robin. Mud season is not winter and not quite spring. It is something in between, a few weeks transcending transition to become a season in itself. First comes a slow drip. Then a tentative trickle. Then the melt begins in earnest: a rush, a gurgle, a cascade. The earth squirts, muck and mire suck at boots, downhill becomes a torrent, uphill becomes a bog. Snowbanks dissolve, flowing over ground already saturated. The frost...