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Nearby, during the Rev. Jesse Jackson's speech in front of University Hall, members of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA) handed out red ribbons, symbols of support for people with AIDS. BGLSA members said they hoped the AIDS crisis would receive the same attention year-round as it gets on December 1, the day set aside each year as World AIDS...
Competition from low-cost, entrepreneurial private schools will pressure public institutions to abandon such inefficiencies as the tenure system. They will also give up the 10-month school year, a relic of the time when students had to do farm work in summertime. Year-round schooling is a more efficient use of resources; summer breaks tend to make the first and last months of the term virtually useless anyway...
...ultimate team plays a year-round schedule, but "official" competition against Ivy League teams does not come until spring...
Never getting out of condition is the best way to maintain an athletic career. Top athletes now train year-round instead of seasonally. "It's not advancing age that necessarily hurts performance," says American physiologist Steve Fleck, "it's deconditioning." Experts believe that swimmer Mark Spitz, 42, whose technique in the butterfly stroke is still regarded as ideal, failed in his comeback bid earlier this year in part because he had been out of condition for 17 years and did not do enough resistance training. Nonetheless, notes Fleck, "the trend is in the direction of the better performances coming from...
Nathans said she wants students to keep theFreshman Dean's Office in mind beyond orientationweek. She said she would eventually like to form astudent-faculty committee to give year-round inputon first-year life...