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    We have positive, enthusiastic learning centers in all our schools and that has carried over to Southern Lee, ... I'm hoping for a large turnout. Even people who don't or won't have children in school will have a very positive experience walking through Southern Lee High School. They will also see how schools have changed. As we consider renovations to Lee County High School, we will be looking at what we've done at Southern Lee.


    The good thing is that I played a lot of high-school baseball against guys who are in college ball. Its still a big jump. I just come ready to play every day. I have to know two positions defensively. What helps is that I played third, a corner infield position.

    I think he feels badly that he's hurt his family and the university and the fans, and he wants to right the ship. This (suspension) gives him a chance to do that. It is also crystal clear that if he is involved in any other kinds of trouble, whether it be judicial, athletic or through the university, his association with the university will be terminated. He knows that. He knows exactly where he stands.

    This has been a real concern to us and the sportsmen in the region. But with what we learn from this study, we will be able to target key areas that mule deer use with habitat improvement programs, and hopefully, be able to determine what other factors might be depressing mule deer numbers in this area.

    It is important for parents to ask for information from each private college about the various merit grants, scholarships and other incentives available, as they differ from college to college.

    We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, ... It is incumbent upon us to have the best security practices, constantly to review them, learn the lessons from the past and make sure that it doesn't happen again.


    All of this has occurred with an investment of approximately 1 percent in university resources an investment that is far less than our peers. I look forward to this opportunity to discuss the value which our department has added to our growing and vibrant university.

    I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.


    We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that (during the school year).





    I think she did a great job as vice chair. She seems to have a lot of passion for the university and the welfare of the student body. She's a hard worker, and she really cares about what she does.

    Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.




    We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.


    It gets mentioned all throughout the year. Everybody wants to know when those BBC games are. All day at school everybody's telling me, 'I want 30 points or 50 points.' Everybody is looking forward to it.

    When you lose players and students at a school, it's devastating on campus and in the community. As a coach, your role is to comfort the team when something like that happens, but at the same time you are feeling it too.

    This makes a mockery of planning regulations. We feel this is outrageous there is nowhere for the children to play. There is a huge groundswell of bad feeling among the local community about this. How can the school ignore all the rules

    I think the University of North Carolina has gotten a rebirth, a great burst of energy. We've won some games and we've had some new coaches come in who exude excellence. The team is starting to feed off their energy. You look at them and say, 'How can your coach be more excited than you are' It makes you up your ante a little more.

    Left to my own imagination, I could never have composed a scenario that was anywhere as interesting as my life has been starting out as an eager altar boy, a good Boy Scout, a relatively docile Dominican brother and priest, receiving an advanced degree in spirituality, teaching bishops and many others around the world about our Western spiritual tradition, and then ending up being expelled from the Dominican order.

    These days shooting has become a lost art. Kids are looking to make the spectacular pass, the handles and the dunk. Statistically throughout the college and pro games, the percentages are down.

    The city has requested that we perform a visitor profile study, which hopes to find out who our visitors are in Fort Collins, where they are coming from, and why they are coming.

    The board of education has no business allowing the library board under our flag to run a bond issue. We go to the public enough. Probably more than enough.

    There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.



    Asked if he was opposed to teaching intelligent design in schools, Huntsman said he was against it being taught in science classes. If it comes up in sociology or philosophy as differing views on creation, I think that's appropriate, ... But that doesn't happen until college or maybe later in high school.


    Amazon is two-and-a-half years down the learning curve. As of tomorrow, Borders will be a few hours down the learning curve. It's another option for book buyers, but we don't view Borders as a big competitive threat to Amazon. We see this as more of a defensive move than an offensive move.

    I think we all have to remember that we could have a university without a football team. A lot of universities don't have football teams. But we can't have a football team without a university. The university will always come first.

    I knew Tim was going to be a solid player even before he got to high school. He's come a long ways. He's matured this year as far as taking better shots, and he also enables Andrew to get freed up because people have a hard time focusing on one just guy, and we've got five guys who score in double figures.

    While we have the utmost respect for coach Willingham, his staff, his players and the university, ... after last week we know we need to make a lot of adjustments and a lot of corrections within ourselves, and we're really concentrating on fixing ourselves before we head out to Seattle.










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