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...Season 4 begins, Taylor gets a new team and new problems. The Dillon school system has been redistricted, and he's been transferred to coach at the reopened East Dillon High, across town and a world away. Whereas Dillon (now West Dillon) was a sports powerhouse, richly funded by alumni who once opted to raise money for a JumboTron rather than classroom resources, East Dillon is overlooked and underfunded. When Taylor visits the school's broken-windowed field house, he's greeted by a raccoon in a locker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friday Night Lights: Back from the Brink | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...brain break crowd at Kirkland dining hall comprises a sufficient sample of the Harvard student body), approximately 60% of you are saying to yourself, “Wait, Harvard has a Homecoming?” Yes we do, and yes, it was this past weekend. Organized by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Homecoming was a complete failure. There were no student-centered events, no flyers, not even a banner at the game that heralded its significance. Unless you were involved with the game or had recently-graduated friends pass on information from the alumni mailing list, Homecoming robably flew right...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homecoming Weekend Could Use Some Work | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...heard of homecoming through the alumni network and from friends who had graduated,” Zipprich said. “I didn’t hear much through the students unfortunately...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homecoming Weekend Could Use Some Work | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

This ignorance of Harvard’s first Homecoming in years also penetrated into the alumni population. J. Archer O’Reilly III, a defensive back for the ’65 Crimson, has rarely missed a Harvard football game during the past half decade. Yet, O’Reilly first learned of Homecoming during a reference in the band’s pregame show, and after speaking with other Harvard sports alumni, found that they too were out of the loop...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homecoming Weekend Could Use Some Work | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Homecoming] was a well-kept secret,” O’Reilly said. “I’m old enough to remember when Homecoming was a big deal—[the HAA] seem to be building this as an alumni event, which is unfortunate because Homecoming should be an undergraduate-centered event...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homecoming Weekend Could Use Some Work | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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