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...uniforms? Does the team send out disturbing subliminal messages ("Hi, we're the Duke basketball team. Let us delight you with the sound of our nails running down a chalkboard")? The root of this loathing remains a mystery, although I suspect it may have something to do with the team's incorrigibly clean, slightly privileged image - and its annoying tendency...
...That kind of heavy hand has its opponents. William Pollack, a psychologist who wrote Real Boys' Voices, an exploration of boyhood, contends that such a punitive approach criminalizes childhood behavior and fails to address the root causes of bullying. Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a study on bullies, favors a comprehensive approach. "As soon as you pull a bully out of a school, another will take his place," she says. A deeper shift in school culture is required, she argues, because ultimately peer groups, not individuals, promote an ethic...
...longtime resident of Greater Boston, I routinely root for the local schools competing in the NCAA basketball tournament. But this year, I found that I could not, in good conscience, support the talented Boston College (BC) basketball team. After a much-publicized fight on the early morning of Jan. 4 between some members of the team and other patrons of a Boston bar, I could hardly enjoy watching the Eagles play...
WESTERN KENTUCKY HILLTOPPERS Bowling Green, Ky. Record: 24-6 Sample Fight Song Lyric: "We've got the team/We've got the steam" Reason to Root for Them: They believe an intangible force, "Western Spirit," flows through all alumni...
GONZAGA BULLDOGS Spokane, Wash. Record: 24-6 Sample Fight Song Lyric: "Onward, we cry!/Conquer or die!" Reason to Root for Them: They're actually good