Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit in conjunction with overseas trips. Students at Ohio University, for example, could not have found International Studies 369B in the school's catalog. The four-credit course was tied to a 14-day trip the basketball team took to Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and France during the 1986 summer vacation. Alan Boyd of the department of sociology and anthropology taught a portion of the course. "Its purpose was to try to help the basketball players to more thoroughly enjoy a cross-cultural experience so it would be more than just shooting basketballs," says Boyd. The players were required...
Four years later, Brian left Tulsa without a degree. Today he thinks he understands what went wrong. From his first day on campus, every decision was made for him by the coaches. His summer job was arranged by the athletic department. He says that a few times during his first two years when he was low on money for the weekend, he went to one of the coaches and got $20. "It was something you were taught from the older guys -- 'If you needed money, go ask.' " Even Brian's courses were selected...
...like a majority of them. The books are not the main thing with some of them." Orr draws a $90,000 salary, has a hefty endorsement contract with Reebok shoes, makes $40,000 a year in speaking fees, has a radio program, a TV program and runs a summer camp. The school makes more than $1 million a year from basketball. Orr says he does not feel guilty that the players do not share in that wealth. "We're giving the kids something," he says. "We're giving them an education...
...lack of literary companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort area. "I'm known as the eccentric bastard who moved to the Hamptons and brought his house with him," says Irving, a man who can take satisfaction in having done things...
Last week Washington recorded its 120th murder of 1989; there had been 73 committed at the same point a year ago. At that bloody rate, last year's record 372 killings will be surpassed by the end of this summer...