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...lived here a few years back that got run out," he says. "I didn't want to go through the same thing." (Administrators say they haven't heard of any such incident.) Being in the minority took a while for Kimberly McCullough, 18, a white student on a tennis scholarship, to get used to. She is one of four whites out of 300 students in the women's dorm. "Until I made some friends, it was kind of weird at first," she says. "But then it was no big deal...
...suspensions for sins that are, at best, abstruse. Seven big-name players have missed games this season for alleged rules violations that occurred while they were still in high school. Most notably, St. John's University's star point guard, Erick Barkley, was suspended for taking $3,150 in scholarship aid from a church group to help offset his $23,500 prep-school tuition. "We feel that a lot of these players are getting a bad reputation and are being vilified in the eyes of the public when, in fact, nothing morally wrong has occurred," says Duke's Shane Battier...
...Navin is the greatest testament of all to a life well-lived. Navin was remembered with not one memorial service, but hundreds. Yesterday, I found Navin's Rhodes essay on the Web, at http://adams.student.harvard.edu/fellowships/Navins_winning_essay.htm. It is there as a model for other students aspiring to win the scholarship. But what it says provides a model for us all. "Tomorrow is never guaranteed," Navin wrote--four words he seemed to truly understand...
...Pfoho-open has helped me find whatever I need when I need it--be it dreidels for a curriculum for the Mission Hill after-school program, or a notary public to notarize a copy of my passport for a scholarship, or directions on how to get to the Providence Airport," Morgan E. Hall '01 says...
Bill Bradley was born in 1943 in Crystal City, Mo., where he lived until he left to attend college at Princeton University. There, he was a star on the school's basketball team. After graduation in 1965, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He then had a successful 10 year career in the National Basketball Association, playing as guard for the New York Knicks. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame...