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Julie Chu '07 joined the coaching staff on the women's team at Minnesota-Duluth last Tuesday, while former Bulldogs assistant Joakim Flygh and former Providence standout and Amherst assistant Melanie Ruzzi were brought in to round out the Harvard coaching outfit...
Ruzzi is a newcomer to the Division I coaching ranks, but had success as an assistant at Division III Amherst, where she helped the team to its first NESCAC championship. She also was a star player at Providence, captaining the Friars during the 2002-03 season...
...this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour map of the University of California at San Diego and photos, taken at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, of vault-worthy railings and bulwarks galore...
...rather than keep pace with peers' spending increases. "Evaluating education in a way that rewards institutions for building Jacuzzis and rock walls as much as for investing in what happens in the classroom is a system that is leading us in the wrong direction," says Anthony Marx, president of Amherst College. He and others warn of "hidden incentives," but sometimes they're in plain sight. Just this month, a compensation plan was approved for the head of Arizona State University explicitly tying a $10,000 bonus to a higher U.S. News ranking...
Hometown: Amherst, Mass...