Word: snow
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...this are not usually my beat. My anti-establishment (any establishment) leanings are hardly a secret. Crimson President Ira E. Stoll '94 was being ironic when he suggested that going to this "would allow me to do what I like best." But I would probably trudge in the snow to meet the Republican National Committee Chair if I thought I could get a column...
...have the right to demand that snow and rain never touch our heads or feet. But we do have the right to ask for secure transportation conditions at more than $20,000 tuition per year...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
...this has been a season of slides. So far, this winter is shaping up as a record breaker. There have already been 2,260 avalanches, some of them powerful enough to topple full-grown trees. The reason for the surge is simple: big storms have dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Mountain West. Too much snow falling in too short a period sets up the slopes for a slide. The most recent avalanches, for instance, occurred in the wake of a storm that dumped as much as 8 ft. of the white stuff...
...Crimson were also inconvenienced; Plympton Street's fake snow stayed far too long. They used our space and accosted staff members on their way here...