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Like Figaro, the titular character in Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville,” Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 is a jack-of-all-trades...
...addition to running a hair-cutting business, Adjah is an All-Ivy League triple-jumper and until last month served as president of the Black Students Association...
...March, Adjah joined the cast of characters pressing Harvard to sell its stake in PetroChina, the Beijing-based oil firm with links to the Sudanese government. At a brainstorming session in Adams House, Adjah and 20 other undergraduates formed the United Front for Divestment, a group modeled after a similar student-led coalition that protested Harvard’s financial ties to South Africa’s apartheid government in the early 1980s...
Harvard’s sole championship at the event came in the triple jump, an event in which three Crimson jumpers met the regional qualifying mark. Junior Samyr Laine won the event with a 15.89-meter leap. In third place was Adjah with a 15.49-meter jump, slightly better than his performance last weekend at Heps. Senior Travis Hughes sealed the repeat of last week’s one-three-six finishes with a 15.11-meter jump, qualifying for the NCAA regional competition by three-hundredths of a meter...
...team is working to “perform well and move on,” Adjah said. “We’re going to work hard at regionals to make sure we make it to Sacramento,” where the NCAA championships will be held...