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Chang's death will spur the University Health Services (UHS) and the House to organize counseling sessions and put more mental health professionals on call over the next few weeks. That is fine, except that the availability of mental health services will flag in proportion to the publicity surrounding the suicide so that when student need help months later, they often cannot...
Others I spoke with described the purity of his swing and his instinctive ability to arrive where a ball was about to land. My own experience was confined to a single game, the first I ever saw, when DiMaggio, suffering from a bone spur, was on his last legs. The mother of a boy in our neighborhood took a bunch of us to the Stadium. DiMaggio hit a drive into the upper deck in right. "You'll never forget that," said my friend's mother...
...Junior Mike Madden--who is also a defensive back on the football team--is the incumbent closer, one of the reach-back-and-gun variety. But Madden has battled an elbow spur...
Junior Mike Madden--who is also a defensive back on the football team--is the incumbent closer, one of the reach-back-and-gun variety. But Madden has battled an elbow spur...
...flat tire. At that point Byrd was still alive and conscious. His tormentors then dragged him 2 1/2 more miles to his death. The jury also heard the tale of a young man sent to prison for burglary who emerged as a heavily tattooed member of a Klan spur group. One witness said King plotted to kill a black man when he returned to Jasper as part of a "blood-tie" initiation into the Klan chapter he planned to form. Photos showed tattoos covering much of King's upper body, including the image of a black man hanging from...