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...from Akpan and Rogers at 44:16. Both teams remained scoreless for the remainder of the game. The last meeting of the two cross-town rivals occurred in 2001 and was also held at the Eagles’ Newton Campus Complex. But the outcome of that matchup was far better for the home team—then-unranked Boston College trumped the visiting No. 18 Crimson, 3-2. This year, the Crimson emerged victorious on the strength of a balanced effort from its seasoned veterans and rising stars. “The team’s been great?...
...scored their first goals of the weekend in the opening matchup, but Harvard consistently found itself in a hole against a talented Pacific team.“Pacific is a great team,” Atkinson explained, “And it was good to go out and get better against a team like that.”Sophomore goalie Alex Popp shined against the Tigers, posting eight saves and providing coach Farrar with the luxury of two solid options between the posts.“[Popp and Balaraman] have done a fantastic job so far,” Farrar...
...going to define our team,” Nichols said. “It takes a lot to become a team. I felt like last season, it took the entire season to get to that really great feeling…I think we started this season better than we have in the past, so I have a lot of confidence that we’re going to do well pretty early.”—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...season last weekend. Hosting the Harvard Invitational at the Malkin Athletic Center, the Crimson won its first two matches—defeating Colgate, 3-2, and Stony Brook, 3-1—and dropped its final game to Toledo, 3-1. “We got better all weekend,” Harvard coach Jen Weiss said. “We improved in so many ways in our offensive and defensive system.” TOLEDO 3, HARVARD 1 In its final match of the weekend, the Crimson faced the undefeated Rockets (6-0). After winning the first...
...union representatives within Harvard, the administration’s most recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health benefits along...