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...while the Lampoon has certainly provoked the fire department, punishing the president of the Lampoon for burning a copy of The Crimson seems comically unfair. It would be like telling a bird not to sing...
June 3-4: The World Millennium Convention of the Budgerigar Society; in Eastbourne, England. Bird lovers pay tribute to the chirpy little parakeet...
...same person inside that she has always been. On a recent Monday, teacher Shelly Bancroft read David Adler's Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man to her fourth-graders, then led a group discussion. Katha Edwards' class, which had read E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan, about a bird without a voice, talked about Dillon's muteness. Said a student: "Mrs. Dillon is brave. She has a disease, but she works and works and never gives...
Compare that to Knight's psychological torture chamber. No wonder Indiana has stumbled so often in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. No wonder great players--Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, George McGinnis--don't last in Bloomington. Why would anyone even go there? Wooden inspired confidence, which he considered essential to achieving peak performance. He taught us that the journey to the top of the pyramid was the result of a lifetime of preparation. While Wooden fostered hope, Knight represents the death of hope, the stifling control freak. Look at his coaching style: "Get the ball, and look over here...
Besides, contrary to what Green thinks, celebrations do have their place in the game. End zone rituals distinctive to a specific team, like Atlanta's "Dirty Bird" dance of two seasons ago, help to build team character and camaraderie. They represent an admittedly peculiar--but still compelling--form of male bonding. I'm sure an anthro major could back me up here...