Word: dropping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Immediately following the men's race, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew rowed to a surprising fourth-place finish in the Championship Eight division, only to drop to 15th after being assessed a 20-second penalty...
...While the council passed its budget this week--decrying the drop in student group funding for the next fiscal year--we must remind them that some student organizations should not be allowed to live it up at the student body's expense. Like first-years with their parents' credit cards, student groups also receive resources without accountability. Instead of granting the same number of groups fewer funds--keeping standards and expectations low--the council should extend a higher credit limit to fewer groups and spend more of our termbill money on campus-wide public goods...
...indicative of these fundamental changes in the organization. In a lamentable but necessary change, the RCAA became the Radcliffe Association--a change that RCAA President A'Lelia P. Bundles '74 said "reflects our tradition but also lets us welcome in other people--men, for example." Although the vote to drop the reference to the now-defunct College was unanimous and needed to reflect the changing nature of the organization, it was nonetheless moving to witness the end of an era and see the last vestiges of Radcliffe College get pasted into the scrapbook of history...
...felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether, and all it takes is a quick blast like the sizzling instrumental "Spider-Gris" to get the pirogue floating down the bayou again...
...drop out if the Yankees don't win," quipped Eliot House resident Osborne A. Jackson...