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...magazine recently selected their list of the ten schools with the most obnoxious college sports fans in America to coincide with the finals of the NCAA Tournament. On the list? Duke, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio State, WashingtonState, Minnesota, Florida State, Vanderbilt, Colorado, and—you guessed it?...
Sophomore third baseman Virginia Fritsch is out for the season after undergoing shoulder surgery in the fall...
Henry Wechsler, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), claims that binge drinking at universities is as old as the Louisiana Purchase. “Thomas Jefferson complained about it when he was president of the University of Virginia,” Wechsler says. At Harvard, the alcoholic ethos is equally ancient. In the nineteenth century, commencement ceremonies were presided over by a sheriff, several police officers, and two judges in order to control the students’ raucous “gambling, drinking, swearing, and fighting,” Wechsler writes in his book Dying...
...move contradicted the G.O.P.'s long-standing support of states' rights, generating concern from a few independent-minded members of the party, like Virginia Senator John Warner. As the only Republican Senator to take to the floor to speak against the emergency legislation, Warner declared in the Congressional Record that "I fear the door has opened, and Congress, which by constitutional mandate is entrusted to pass laws for the nation, will again and again be petitioned to deal with personal situations which are the responsibility of the several states." Even so, the idea of a meaningful split emerging...
...There truly is this clinical restructuring going on and we were not consulted,” said TAP co-chair Virginia B. Boyd. “I think students need to have some voice in making that decision...