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...Leavitt was born in a motel bathtub on the night of June 18, 2005. Her mother cleaned her, breast-fed her and cut the umbilical cord herself. The next day, the young Hispanic woman swaddled the infant in a white towel and took her to Fire Station 15 in Whittier, Calif., where she rang the doorbell and told the firefighters, "I want to give up my baby." When the paramedics arrived 30 minutes later, she put the child on their gurney and left. "It was eerie," recalls firefighter Kevin Cull. "The ambulance went off in one direction, and she just...
...highest functioning, like Temple Grandin, the author and Colorado State University professor of livestock behavior known for designing humane slaughterhouses. But the voices of those more severely affected are beginning to be heard as well. Such was the case with Sue Rubin, 27, a college student from Whittier, Calif., who has no functional speech and matches most people's stereotyped image of a retarded person; yet she was able to write the narration for the Oscar-nominated documentary about her life, Autism Is a World...
Many of the Courier’s old reporters have settled into the last stages of their careers. Lake, Lottman, and Gale all attended law school. Gale is now a professor at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, Calif.; Lake and Lottman are in private practice. Geoff L. Cowan ’64, former director of the governmental broadcasting service Voice of America, now serves on the journalism and law faculties at the University of Southern California, and was named dean of USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism...
...students participating in online gambling do so quietly, mostly in the silence and privacy of their dorm rooms, according to Whittier Law School Professor I. Nelson Rose. As a consequence, the symptoms of a gambling addiction are hard to recognize, making it a difficult problem for the College to tackle. One House master, for example, says he did not know that online gambling existed until he was contacted by The Crimson about the issue...
During its annual spring break trip to California, the Crimson played a four-game slate that included No. 20 Cal Baptist—one of three ranked teams on Harvard’s schedule. The Crimson defeated Division III Whittier 10-5 to kick off the trip and split its next two matches leading up to the showdown with the Lancers. The two teams battled to a scoreless tie at half, before Cal Baptist netted three third period goals. Harvard rallied for two scores in the fourth, but fell...