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Lin’s solid showing amidst the likes of Cal??s Jerome Randle and Alabama’s Mikhail Torrance earned him plenty of praise from professional evaluators...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lin Aims To Boost Draft Chances | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...handily swept Harvard, 7-0, on Wednesday at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Golden Bears swept both singles and doubles in a strong showing. In the No. 1 matchup, sophomore Holly Cao and junior captain Samantha Rosekrans fell to Cal??s sixth-ranked duo of Mari Andersson and Jana Juricova 8-4. The Golden Bears secured the doubles point in the second match, with an 8-2 victory over the freshman pair of Kristin Norton and Hideko Tachibana. In the final doubles matchup, sophomore Caroline Davis and freshman Alexandra Lehman lost 8-4 to Stephany Chang and Annie...

Author: By Aparajita Tripathi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Tennis Splits in California | 3/21/2010 | See Source »

...ocean; instead, a series of cars conveyed me across a continent. I was becoming a new person, too, just like Lefty and Desdemona, and I didn’t know what would happen to me in this new world to which I’d come.” Cal??s sexual transformation is, for his generation, as heroic and insurmountable a task as immigration and assimilation was for his grandparents, if not moreso...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...motifs, scenarios, even fates. Wouldn’t I also sneak up on a girl pretending to be asleep?” Cal is able to wax lyrical about the grand scheme of things, but still retains the intimacy that first-person perspective guarantees. This innovative approach also reflects Cal??s unique circumstances: belonging to the story being told yet isolated by his disorder; identifying with both sexes yet foreign to either one; socially aware yet ostracized by society...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Eugenides juxtaposes—almost cruelly—a narrative that barrels through history and the reality of Cal??s reflective intransigence. The novel’s historical reflections are interspersed with fragments of Cal??s search for emotional connection, and his flight from that connection into anonymity and loneliness. These passages manifest Cal as the tragic center of the novel. “If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn’t feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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