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...trip.... The names RICH REID and GEOFF STEARNS may not be that recognizable to many House football fans, but over the past three years they have kept House football thriving and functioning at a healthy pace. Who are they? They're the chain gang, devoting their time (for a slight fee, of course) to carrying the ten-yard marker and ball marker up and down the grid iron. But the two Kirkland House residents will be retiring after Yale due to old age--they're seniors. In honor of that event, the House football referees gave Stearns and Reid each...
...over by a proprietor without propriety. With Jackson out (strained calf muscle) and New York winning, the first two games in Yankee Stadium were artistic occasions for appreciating the resident third baseman, Graig Nettles. Before Game 3 in Los Angeles, however, Nettles' left thumb began swelling from a slight fracture, and he sat out the next three games. Other small earthquakes awaited the Yankees in L.A., including real ones. "What were you doing during the earthquakes?" Steinbrenner was asked. "I was stamping my foot," he said. Nothing earthshakingly wrong with losing to Fernando Valenzuela, you understand, but after that...
...Faculty member's allied department "in accordance with their own criteria of selection" If other departments are going to be making the tenure decision, it may prove difficult for Social Studies to compete for the time and effort of a junior faculty member who has even a slight chance of being tenured, since it cannot reward this effort in the tenure consideration process...
...President characterized the recession as "slight and, I hope, short." Murray Weidenbaum, his chief economic adviser, predicted that recovery would begin early in 1982. Some private forecasters, however, foresee a serious slump dragging on until the middle of next year. Nor is there any indication yet how much the recession might bring down inflation, if at all. In fact, consumer prices in September leaped up at a shocking annual rate...
...times he has issued open letters explicating University issues; ten times he has delivered crisp Commencement addresses analyzing topics of concern. Yet rarely has he turned his attention from fund-raising and re-organization to undergraduate living on the daily activities of students, Bok's mark has been decidedly slight. But if recent statements provide any indication, Bok's campus priorities may be changing...