Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson play at Providence tomorrow night before returning to the friendly confines of the Malkin Athletic Center for a big Ivy League weekend against Yale and Brown...
...times it seems that the faculty is engaged in a giant game of chicken--and some kids have learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society...
...wearing gray slacks and a black shirt that shows a little midriff, with black dress sandals. A boy spills cookie crumbs down her cleavage, to her disgust. She's got one eye on the game and one on a junior soccer player whom she kissed at a party last weekend. They spent the first part of the game sitting with their friends; then, after half time, they find a spot of their own. However, since everybody knows everybody here, she ends up very near a party including Mrs. Walter, the biology teacher. A discussion of flatulence, led mostly...
...Good weekend, John," she says, and makes her benedictions. And as they climb into their cars, one by one, the walkie-talkies are finally turned...
...humor. While the kids downstairs eat cheese fries, half a dozen science teachers gather in the third-floor faculty lounge over leftovers from home. These 27 min. are more like a sanity break. When they enter the lounge, they get to be adults. They talk about everything from weekend plans to the lack of staff parking to the difference between sweet potatoes and yams...