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There are many steps to ensure team success, as well as individual success in track and field. At the end of a season when the final league standings are printed, and first through last place are shown, it is there where a team may measure and decide what meaning the season may have had.

The University of La Verne cross country team felt it ran a lot better in the past two weeks then it did last Saturday at La Mirada Regional Park in the Biola Invitational. La Verne finished 12th among teams in their conference in the five mile meet.

As the Southern California heat beats down on the small suburb of La Verne, the University of La Verne's men's and women's cross country teams are content with a long stroll in the park as preparation for the 1997 season and as an overall reminder that the runners might actually have to run to class this semester.

Every year, each academic department on campus recognizes the top students in its department in the annual Academic Awards night. Tuesday, the University hosted those students and their families in Founders Auditorium for the ceremony.

Monday morning at 7:30 a.m., the six University of La Verne fraternities and sororities kicked off Greek Week by displaying their letters at various places on campus only to have them burned, stolen and reararranged during the next night.

Using four automatic national qualifying event scores, the University of La Verne track and field teams beat old records and swept a SCIAC meet from Redlands, Whittier and Caltech in Pasadena last Saturday.