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Whipple is known throughout the college ranks as an outstanding offensive stategist. He returned to his alma mater this season after a six-year stint at the University of New Haven...
Paul Siemens '98 of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., sued his alma mater, Spring Valley High School, for using a ranking system that left him out of the valedictory spot. Siemens' lawyer compared the school's ranking system, which double-counts the first semester of senior year, to the injustices suffered by Black slaves and disenfranchised women...
Surely MBAs know that bad-mouthing their alma mater only serves to erode the school's immaculate reputation (a reputation, we might add, that will forever be associated with their own names...
Game Notes: The game features two interesting coaching reunions. First, Harvard's offensive coordinator Mike Foley graduated from Colgate in 1978. He led the Red Raiders to a 10-1 season and a 38-21 win over the Crimson in 1977. He then went on to coach his alma mater from 1981-1992. He was the head coach from...
Attending this school doesn't help one get grants; in fact, the laws of supply and demand would suggest that a Harvard transcript is enough to torpedo almost any application. The surfeit of overeager contenders from Cambridge should lead wilier aspirants to delete the alma mater from their records altogether, or at least blur it a little...