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...TIMES, KIESLING'S feeling about crew get even more intense than the Straus Cup finals. Like his nightmare before the 1979 Race: he dreamt that the competition had changed from a crew race into an eight-man duel, starting with the bowmen. One shot each: Each raised his pistol, fired, and disappeared with a clean round hole drilled through his forehead. This is not a normal athletic Tantasy...
...Among his 444 sources are a lot of counter-culture authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful ideas from the safe thinkers, such as Freud, Levi-Straus, Durkheim, Chomsky and that old mystic. Hegel Wilber's grasp on the bannister of western social science is too tight to dislodge, so if the existing regime kicks him down the stairs, he takes the stairs with...
...Kelly commented that part of the reason Winthrop House was so well represented was because tutor RODNEY PEARSON--who ran a blazing 2:35--generated a lot of enthusiasm by putting up signs on the wall and being helpful. If the Winthrop turnout is any indication of Straus Cup power, the "Throp has this year wrapped up easily... In the Day After Department, junior KATHY DAVIS--who ran a 3:30 marathon--reported that she was having trouble walking downstairs and the profusion of blood blisters on her feet precluded wearing shoes. Brother MATT DAVIS '85, who collapsed...
...Currierites, however, need no condolences, for they are experiencing a wave of spirit enthusiasm never felt before in a House north of the Science Center For the first time in the 50-year history of intramural sports a Quad House leads in the race for the coveted Straus Cup--the trophy awarded to the House at the end of the year that has amassed the most points in intramural competition...
...athletic secretaries interviewed all stressed that Straus competition should be low-key and fun, despite the obvious rivalries between the Houses. "Intramural should be enjoyable," stressed Durum. "But then to keep people waking up at 6 in the morning we've got to keep that Cup in the distance...