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...after attending a conference at Columbia University on ethnic studies this winter, a broad base of support coalesced in favor of the cause. Conference attendees included members of the Black Students Association (BSA), RAZA and Fuerza Latina...
Soon after the coalition’s formation, members of RAZA, Concilio Latino and Fuerza Latina threatened to withdraw from a rally partly intended to highlight the broad base of support for ethnic studies. They were angered by a letter coalition member Ethan Y. Yeh ’02 wrote to University administrators, saying the message overlooked their goals...
...Krinsky’s unflinching and vivid candor. In her Oct. 26, 2001, column “Manual manipulation: a dying art,” for example, Krinsky bemoans the handjob’s disappearance from the love repertoire, a change that she claims essentially removes third base from the sexual infield—leaving couples to either jump the canyon to home plate or hunker down at second for the long haul...
After sophomore centerfielder Bryan Hale struck out, Sheffield stepped into the box and lined a pitch into the left-field corner for what appeared to be a bases-clearing extra-base...
...break out of that? You mix things up when you do get on base. You give sophomore Bryan Hale the green light to steal second with two outs. Or, you tell senior Chaney Sheffield to bunt his way aboard with two outs in the seventh, runners on first and third and hot-swinging senior Mark Mager in the on-deck circle...