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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Happier news out of the land of Rutgers:
Those who choose to chase their dreams sleep the least.

Brittany Ray knows that sleeplessness better than many. She is the captain of a Rutgers team coached by C. Vivian Stringer (no stranger to early practices that tend to run habitually late) and a biological sciences major with designs on medical school. So Ray knows the sting of an alarm that is set long after late-night comedians leave the airwaves and that starts ringing before the morning shows begin.

She is a basketball player. She wants to be a doctor. The two need not be mutually exclusive, but it's difficult for them to be anything but mutually monopolistic in vying for her attention.