Two goals in two minutes the difference in Oxy loss

September 26th, 2011


By Michael Wells
Sports Information Director

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—There were two plays in the first three minutes that the Occidental College men’s soccer team wishes they had back on Saturday.

The Tigers conceded a pair of goals within the first three minutes that proved to be the difference in a 3-1 loss to the University of Redlands at Jack KempStadium.

Cody Carlson scored just seconds after the opening whistle and Pat Roraff found the net two minutes later, giving the Bulldogs (5-3, 3-0) a comfortable lead they sustained throughout the match.

Following the two early blemishes, the game was evenly played by both sides.

Occidental coach Rod Lafaurie suspected his guys might have been a little anxious from the start, playing against one of the SCIAC’s elite soccer teams.

“We started off so slowly and that’s disappointing. M

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WAC Welcomes Cal State Bakersfield, Dallas Baptist

September 26th, 2011

 

In an age of endless football-driven conference realignment (most recently, Pittsburgh and Syracuse joining the Atlantic Coast Conference this weekend), it is refreshing when schools and conferences stop to consider their baseball programs. The Western Athletic Conference announced Monday that Cal State Bakersfield and Dallas Baptist will join the conference as baseball-only members starting with the 2012-13 academic year.

The additions will give the WAC a total of 10 teams for baseball, as the Roadrunners and Patriots will join Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, Sacramento State, San Jose State, Seattle, Texas-Arlington, Texas-San Antonio and Texas State in 2013. The additions of UTA, UTSA, DBU and Texas State in the Lone Star State, plus Seattle and CSUB on the West Coast, make the new-look WAC a strong mid-major baseball conference. The WAC remains spread out geographically, but at least it has schools clustered together in the Texas area.

“CSU Bakersfield and Dallas Baptist will be a good fit with the baseball teams in the WAC,” WAC commissioner Karl Benson said in a release. “We

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Event: NY Times Schools for Tomorrow Conference

September 25th, 2011

The New York Times Schools for Tomorrow conference will be held on Thursday, September 22, 2011 beginning at 8:30am. This will be an annual event, designed to promote dialogue and action in the education sector, focusing on the school of the future. For 2011, the first year, we will focus on how technology can – and should – be integrated into the classroom. We will showcase the technology of tomorrow, while the overriding theme through the sessions will be how to incorporate digital tools into the classroom.

You can watch the conference here through Livestream.

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Former MSC Great Bob Will Passes Away

September 24th, 2011

     Mankato, Minn. — Bob Will, who played three sports while attending Mankato State College in the mid-1950’s and is recognized as one of the school’s all-time great student-athletes, passed away August 11 in Woodstock, Ill.

Born in Berwyn, Ill., Will was 80 at the time of his death.  

He was an all-conference athlete in three different sports during MSU career.  As a baseball player, he led the conference in hitting with .600 average. He led the football team in total yards and touchdowns and served as team captain as a senior and served as the basketball team captain in 1955. Named MSC’s Athlete of the Year in 1954 and inducted in the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1966, Will played major league baseball as an outfielder and saw action in 410 games with the Chicago Cubs from 1957-63.  He retired from professional baseball following the 1964 season.

                                                                    

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New Focus On Students Who Nearly FinishedCollege

September 23rd, 2011

The Institute for Higher Education Policy held a meeting focused on how near-completers people who have earned most but not all of the credits they need for a college degree. The organization also discussed their Project Win-Win, which has helped nine institutions award nearly 600 associate degrees and identify almost 1,600 students who are candidates for earning degrees

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James Powell: Science Denialism Is Not Free, Part II

September 22nd, 2011

Science denial, when projected from the level of the state, can cost millions, even scores of millions, of lives.—James Powell

Global warming is the latest example in the long history of science denial. No doubt it will not be the last. What is different about global warming is that if it continues on its current worst-case trajectory, it has the potential to cost more lives than the wars, famines, economic depressions, and natural disasters of the twentieth century all taken together.

The most conspicuous example of science denial, if global warming has not already earned that label, is evolution denial, better known as creationism. It shows no signs of abating even though in more than 150 years, no one has ever been able to show that evolution is false. Over that history, scientific understanding of evolution and the evidence for it have grown, yet today 40-45 percent of Americans (Gallup and Pew polls) prefer creationism over evolution.

In contrast to the other types of science denial that I will describe, creationism does not have fatal consequences. A

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