Word: shawn
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...Shawn has a tough road ahead of him. Though he will attend his class's graduation ceremony to watch his peers get diplomas, he won't be on stage, at least not yet. Even the school's efforts to speed up his credit recovery haven't been enough, so he will have to return for a fifth year at Shelbyville High. It's no fun for a 19-year-old to be in high school. Shawn is already a big guy who doesn't like to draw attention to himself...
...Shawn's hopes are bolstered by his plan. Auto-body work is not just a passing fancy for him--even when he's not at the vocational school, he is working on his Camaro, which most recently needed a new bumper. His favorite TV show, of course, is Pimp My Ride. He wants to save for tuition at Lincoln Technical Institute in Indianapolis so he can continue to develop his auto-sculpting skills. He rattles off the industry rates--car painters make an hourly wage of $22, collision techs $17--and he wants to get there. So he laughs...
...Shawn's friends who have dropped out are, for the most part, struggling. A couple of them got their GED and are working in factories, but others are shuffling through menial jobs--one works at the car wash, another is washing dishes. A few, says Shawn, aren't doing much of anything except playing video games at their parents' houses. But Shawn says he is serious about not becoming a part of their dropout nation. "I've already went and put 12 years into this thing," he says. "There's no use throwing it all away...
...cloud of Crimson disappointment hung low on Cambridge after Saturday’s chilly doubleheader split with Penn. Despite receiving arguably its best pitching performances of the season from standout sophomore Shawn Haviland and freshman Adam Cole, Harvard managed to lose a half-game in the standings to Dartmouth. In the long term, nonetheless, Saturday’s pitching clinic proved that for the defending Ivy League champions, long successful as a relentless offensive unit, mound performance can be an area of strength in 2006. “You come out of 15 innings, giving...
...baseball team split a doubleheader with Penn (8-20, 3-7 Ivy), losing the first game 1-0 in the final inning and winning the second by a 7-0 margin. The Crimson offense struggled to complement the efforts of the team’s two top pitchers, sophomore Shawn Haviland and freshman Adam Cole, who impressed by allowing only one run over 15 innings. Junior Brendan Byrne and senior Josh Klimkiewicz had solid days at the plate. Byrne went 3-6 during the day, including a eighth-inning double that broke the second game open for the Crimson...