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...really helpful to have the opportunity to investigate some of the classes and see how the professor runs his lecture," says Amy L. Mecklenburg...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Jonathan A. Lewin, S | Title: Shopping Period: Looking For a Bargain | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Women's crew placed two rowers into the college finals--senior Sara Simmons and freshman Amy Mecklenburg. Simmons finished 3rd and Mecklenburg placed sixth...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Rowers Place at CRASH-B | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Those barriers can be daunting for minority students, many of whom have a hard time succeeding in the impersonal atmosphere of regular school. Love of Learning purposely recruits promising youngsters from the nearby Charlotte- Mecklenburg public school system who are in the middle -- not at the top -- of their class. Special consideration is given to those who have the potential to be the first in their families to go to college. "I call them diamonds in the rough," says Love of Learning director Brenda Tapia, who is also Davidson's assistant chaplain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Diamonds In The Rough | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...three weeks of "replacement" games last October, Washington was the only team that stayed out en masse. Something must be said for solidarity. Meanwhile, the few Denver players who crossed the line, Receiver Steve Watson among them, seemed invariably to get injured. Picketing outside the stadium, Bronco Linebacker Karl Mecklenburg did some temporary damage to his image, retrieving and tearing up an eightyear-old's autograph when the boy started to go into the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangle of Broncos and Redskins | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...holy man, it was a world of trouble. There, in a third-floor medical cell of the Mecklenburg County jail in Charlotte, N.C., sat Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh last week, facing 35 counts of conspiring to violate immigration laws. Back home in Rajneeshpuram, Ore., where he ran a 1,300-member commune that espouses free love and the good life, the Bhagwan (Revered One) was accustomed to more deferential treatment, not to mention a more elegant life- style that offered, among other amenities, no fewer than 90 Rolls-Royces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unholy Mess: The Bhagwan faces a federal rap | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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