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Well, look at that! Miami Marlins infielder Ed Lucas uses an aerial photo of the Dartmouth baseball and football fields on his Twitter page (@ELuke21). Lucas, of course, played one year of quarterback in Hanover before deciding to concentrate on baseball in hopes of playing professionally. It took a while, but his plan worked out.

Through the first 11 games of his big league career Lucas is batting .333.

Access Lucas' Twitter feed here.

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From the Times-Dispatch in Virginia:

The University of Richmond’s faculty athletics representative has proposed a Spiders sports future in Division III without football in a recent email to other UR faculty members. 

Putting aside the Division III aspect for the moment, which is worse? Having your faculty athletics rep feel that way about football, or your admissions director feel that way? Those of you who cringe when you hear the worth antithetical may want to discuss among yourselves. Those of you who are curious why a Big Green football fan would cringe at that word may want to do a Google search including the words "antithetical" and "Dartmouth."

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That Certain '14 worked Dartmouth reunions the past few days and during a break happened to meet new President Phil Hanlon in Baker Library. They chatted for just a few seconds but she came away impressed.

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It will be yard sale time here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain tomorrow.

As you have probably figured out, we really love living here 1.5 miles up a dirt road in a rural outpost of Hanover, but to be completely honest, it's not an ideal location for this kind of sale. We try it every five years or so and do OK, but nothing like we'd be able to do in town. It's a tradeoff, to be sure.

That Certain Nittany Lion keeps saying we should price things higher to make more money. I don't think he quite understands that the idea is to get rid of stuff ;-)