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...situation in life, and we reject the excuses of those who do. Susan Star Durban, South Africa Admirable, Not Heroic? re Time's list of "European Heroes 2005" [Oct. 10]: I dispute your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a small boat. Certainly she has courage, determination, strength, resilience and stamina, and her long-distance rowing achievements are admirable, but she is no hero. If she channeled her fame into raising money to combat aids or poverty, if she taught sailing to underprivileged teens as a way to help them see beyond...
...know, we’re probably too hard on the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). Between boat cruises that run aground, rain-soaked after-parties that lack star acts, and concerts that don’t, but that fail anyway, it really is easy to criticize the UC. But that a group of college students can even contrive to undertake the kind of massive projects that the UC regularly does is a pretty remarkable feat.Even this knowledge, however, was insufficient to keep me calm on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New Haven, when the UC’s plans...
...question probably should have occurred to me before we got there, but upon walking into the clothing store in Central Square last Friday, the gravity of the situation hit me: we were not welcome customers, in a serious way. I was wearing a corduroy jacket over a Henley tee, boat shoes, and Gap jeans with one leg rolled up to avoid getting it caught in my touring bicycle’s gears. I was there to purchase an extra-long t-shirt and jeans with legs so big I could have ridden my bicycle through just one of them. Even...
...between the Harvard and Radcliffe teams that date back to 1972. But in the past year, these pranks have been getting fishier—literally. In October 2004, members of the men’s varsity lightweight crew team reportedly snuck through a second story window of the Weld Boat House with 20 dead mackerel and a five-foot eel. “The place stunk to high hell,” says Mark A. Adomanis ’07, coxswain for the men’s lightweight team and also a Crimson editor. Despite the maritime trend, lightweight rower...
...wanted to leave my freshman fall,” she says. “The culture was just so different.” A native of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Jones started college in the same boat as many other warm-weather-loving, East-coast-bound soon-to-be-Ivy-Leaguers. The adjustment wasn’t an easy one for her. But four years later, Jones dreads the thought of leaving the hallowed halls she now calls home...