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When Tyriq McCord joined NASCAR as a pit crew member a little more than three years ago, his knowledge of what made a car go fast stopped and started with the gas pedal. “I didn’t even know how to change the tire on my car,” he said. But he could bench-press 225 pounds and run 40 yards in 4.5 seconds and those were the kinds of skills Phil Horton was looking for. Advertisement A former athletic trainer in college football and with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, as the pit crew coach for stock-car racing’s Drive for Diversity development program Horton has recruited more than 100 former college and professional athletes, from lacrosse players to linebackers, to work as tire changers, tire carriers, jackmen — and women — and gasmen for teams in all three of NASCAR’s top three nationwide series. And while that has undoubtedly made NASCAR more diverse, it’s also made pit crews better and faster, which can mean millions of dollars in a sport where the average margin of … [Read more...] about NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity is transforming pit crews with college and pro athletes

The operafication of American literature goes on. On Wednesday evening the Juilliard Opera Center offered the premiere of "Miss Lonelyhearts," composed by Lowell Liebermann to a libretto by J. D. McClatchy on a commission honoring the centennial of the Juilliard School. In 1933, Nathanael West's pitiless novel of the same name acted as a kind of hand grenade thrown into the middle of American religious morality. The consolations of Christianity were left more or less in shreds. "Miss Lonelyhearts" concerns a Depression-era "Dear Abby" columnist gradually done in by the unhappinesses to which he is required to respond. This operatic version of the novel exhibits both the joys and the sorrows of transferring art from one set of surroundings to another. Some of "Miss Lonelyhearts" the opera works quite well; some of it doesn't. The larger question is, Why do it in the first place? Both composer and librettist declare their enormous admiration for West's original. One can argue that … [Read more...] about A Nathanael West Novel Gets Its Turn on the Opera Stage

A number of Irish senators have called for stricter censorship to be implemented online after a sudden surge in public backlash against the ongoing migrant crisis plaguing the country. Multiple senators in Ireland have made public calls for online censorship in Ireland to be tightened in the wake of growing disquiet over the country’s pro-open borders approach to its ongoing migrant crisis, which has seen tens of thousands of people arrive in a country of just five million over the last twelve months. With the country having a population much smaller than that of many individual U.S. states, the impact of the thousands of arrivals has been devastating for many local communities, with many ordinary Irish people now struggling to find affordable accommodation in the country as the government focuses on housing both Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian migrants from abroad. Such a political decision, which has also largely been backed by the country’s main opposition party, Sinn Féin, … [Read more...] about Senators Demand Censorship After Public Backlash Against Migrant Crisis

1 Crime & Safety A career criminal, Jermaine Mandley shot Maya Smith, 24, eight times inside her car including five times in her face, sources have said. John Ferak , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply JOLIET, IL — The Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow has added two child endangerment charges for Jermaine Mandley, the 47-year-old Bolingbrook resident already charged with first-degree murder in the death of 24-year-old mother, Maya Smith. Mandley now faces a total of three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of endangering the life or health of a child. Mandley has been detained in the Will County Jail since the night of Jan. 10. His bail is $5 million. Mandley is accused of killing Smith by shooting her a total of eight times, including five times in her face. The homicide happened in a Joliet alley on the city's west side, in the 1200 block of Clement Street, early Saturday … [Read more...] about Maya Smith’s Joliet Murder: More Charges For Jermaine Mandley

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Kids & Family Trinity Children's Ministries and PTL presents … Trunk or Treat & G.L.O.W. (God Lights Our World) Victoria West , Local Nonprofit Posted Reply Trinity Children’s Ministries and PTL presents … Trunk or Treat & G.L.O.W. (God Lights Our World) Saturday, October 28th! All ages are welcome! *Trunk or Treat will be from 2:30–3:30 p.m. in the Trinity Parking Lot. *G.L.O.W. is from 3:00–5:30pm in the Trinity Gym. Activities: Admission fee: Costumes: Trinity Lutheran Church & School is located at: 6850 W. 159th St. Tinley Park, IL 60477 Questions or to Volunteer Contact: [email protected] or 708.532.9395 x 231 or Heather Kochanski @ [email protected] Thank Reply Share … [Read more...] about Trunk or Treat & G.L.O.W. at Trinity

See the article in its original context from January 19, 1988 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. At Stanford University, they still talk of the day nearly a year ago when some 500 students, on a march with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, came up with a slogan for the next generation. The students were celebrating a new course at Stanford, one that would stress the contributions of minorities and women to Western culture, and, they chanted: ''Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture's got to … [Read more...] about In Dispute on Bias, Stanford Is Likely To Alter Western Culture Program