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Hot shot For the first time in the history of the Republic, a former President played some hoop at Haas. Following Bill Clinton’s address at Zellerbach in January, he walked over to the Pavilion, where hundreds of students had been watching him via simulcast. He worked the crowd, chatting and shaking hands, before picking up a basketball. (He made the shot.) Cool dude
“You tend to go a little crazy,” says physics grad student Mike Daub, who has spent two summers measuring the cosmic microwave background-the “echoes of the Big Bang”-at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It was a balmy -20º F when Mike posed for this shot at the ceremonial South Pole, about 30 meters from the actual pole. “It’s too cold for penguins,” which stay near the edges of the continent, he says. “There’s just a lot of really stupid human beings-or, I guess you could call us adventurous.” But, he warns, “You might not want to do this when the wind chill is -90º F.” We submit that you might not want to do it at all.
Grow Bears! This topiary bear has recently taken up residence outside Alumni House. He seemed sort of strange at first, but the little guy is certainly growing on us. Hip to be Squares Freshman Woody Hartman insists that he’s not a big Hollywood Squares fan. “I actually thought it was a pretty ridiculous show,” he says. But Woody changed his tune when he was selected as a contestant for the show’s college tournament, which aired in February. “I was totally surprised and thrilled to have been chosen,” says the mechanical engineering major and Rally Committee member. When asked what life was like as a big Hollywood star, he says diplomatically: “They put us up in a not-so-fancy hotel.” And what about hob-nobbing with the celebrities? “From a purely male standpoint, Gena Lee Nolin and Carmen Electra
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