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...Colantuono echoes.Colantuono found that many other students and tutors in Quincy were willing to offer their support when he found derogatory posters on his door. “It became a House controversy,” he says.The gay rights movement grew exponentially in size and strength throughout the early ’80s.“In my freshman year, at the beginning, I knew of two other [gay] people in our class,” says Schatz, adding that the GSA had a mailing list of around 75 when he started college...
...chronicled by Krakauer, with 10 climbers confirmed dead so far.But to Osborne, the greatest challenge was not the physical danger, but the mental discipline.“You must train your body to climb for 20 hours with an 80lb pack, but harder is to have the mental strength to turn around half an hour below a summit,” Osborne wrote on his website before the climb.And Osborne showed the same perspective after experiencing the disappointment. “Mount Everest is just a big hill, there’s nothing more to it than that...
...squad to defeat the Warriors in a league contest all year—cruised to 3-1 wins in both matches. “Of all the teams in the league, we probably match up best with East Stroudsburg,” Ridolfi said. “Both our strengths are through the middle, and our middle hitters are better than theirs. So they played to our strength, and we were able to beat them twice.” But ESU kept winning, and the Crimson was left fighting for second place and a spot in the end-of-year...
...helped motivate us, had us working as a team,” junior Eric Byrd said. “He is an all-around great coach. We feel we are in good hands.” Farrar implemented an in-season lifting program to improve the players’ strength and ultimately, performance. “The in-season lifting was a sign he is taking this program to the next level,” Byrd said. In the pool, Garcia was a stalwart on both the offensive and defensive ends. Among his many highlights, the junior driver assisted...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team is leaving Boston this year a little less jovial. After beating out long-time rival Princeton last year to win the Ivy championship, the Crimson was ready to bring home another trophy, but was thwarted once again by the strength of the Tiger squad. Harvard lost to Princeton, 1,580 points to 1,445. “I’m really proud of us for fighting,” sophomore Lindsay Hart said. “It was incredibly difficult to be down and to come back and swim again...