Word: warriorism
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...raging controversy over whether the city's only public high school should revive its warrior logo raised tempers last night at a meeting of Cambridge's School Committee, but the committee's head said the issue should be left to the students' discretion...
...conflict began earlier this year when a Native American student at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School complained that the school's mascot, an Indian warrior, was racist. The student also objected to flyers announcing the grand opening of the school store, the Rindge Trading Post, said student government advisor Clarence R. Gaynor...
...members of the Rindge alumni association--which consists of students who graduated from the school before it merged with the Cambridge Latin School in the early 1970s--want the warrior back. They organized a petition, signed by 300 former students, demanding that the mascot berestored...
...just want to keep it," Darling said, addingthat the warrior symbol has been a Rindgetradition since the 1920s...
...mystery was great enough to disturb even the most jaded cold warrior. Somewhere between Oak Ridge, Tenn., and two manufacturers in England, a total of five grams (0.175 oz.) of radioactive tritium had vanished without a trace. What made the disappearance especially alarming was that the quantity of tritium involved was sufficient, when combined with other ingredients, to build a small nuclear weapon. The U.S. Department of Energy, sensitive to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, last July halted U.S. sales of the gas and moved quickly to explain the losses and assure the public that the missing tritium...