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...Kids at Harvard, I’m sure there are some that are living their dream, but there are people there experiencing someone else’s dream. And if there are people around you who aren’t listening to you, who don’t believe that you can manifest what it is you are dreaming, or don’t want you to, then you should get the fuck away from them...
...underscore this point, and perhaps to act as a precursor for entrance into the justice system, many of the schools remind one of a prison, both in their physical layout and the very visible presence of uniformed police officers all around the building. It is no secret that if you devalue human beings and begin treating them as animals, or future inmates, they will eventually begin to act as such. It is no different in the American inner city school system...
...Crimson co-captains started to turn things around. Junior Claire Wheeler hit a jumper to reduce the deficit to six. Harvard wouldn’t find the basket again for nearly two minutes, but it played lockdown defense and didn’t allow Cornell a tally in that period. Then junior co-captain Christine Matera scored her second of four three-pointers to bring the deficit down to two. By then, it seemed only a matter a time before Harvard took control, which it did following a three-pointer by freshman Victoria Lippert and the back-to-back three...
...second half, Harvard finally looked the part of the favored team with its usual offensive stars—Matera, Lippert, Berry and junior Emma Markley—hitting their shots. But the Crimson allowed the Big Red to hang around just long enough to tie the game twice before two free throws from junior Jackie Alemany finally put Harvard up for good with 13 minutes to play...
With Markley’s stellar performance in the paint and a strong supporting cast around the perimeter—guards freshmen Victoria Lippert and junior Jackie Alemany contributed 11 and seven points, respectively—Harvard jumped out to a 20-point advantage with just under six minutes to play, marking its largest lead of the night. From that point on, the Crimson cruised comfortably to its seventh victory at home this season...