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...Director Dr. M. Dianne Murphy at the press conference. Wilson, under whom the Husky offense averaged 30 points and 399 yards per game, is the first African-American head football coach in Ivy League history. Shoop was fired Nov. 20, a day after Columbia lost 52-21 to Ivy champion Brown in its season finale. It was the Lions’ eighth straight loss of the season after beginning the year 2-0. In three seasons with Columbia, Shoop posted a record of 7-23. In the press conference, Murphy said that the Columbia athletic department has been formulating...
...Athletes in Action (AIA) in Science Center D yesterday. In a discussion entitled “Defining Moments,” the ten-year National Football League (NFL) veteran spoke to almost 100 students about the various turning points on the road to becoming a three-time Super Bowl Champion. “Defining moments happen to us all—they have no racial bias, no age bias, no gender bias,” Davis said. According to Davis, defining moments can only be identified by “looking back through the rear-view mirror of your life...
...excited that the HCC plans to make Comedy for a Cause an annual event with a different beneficiary each year.Beyond the success of the show in terms of the tangible funds raised for a worthy cause, the comedy show was also a victory for students looking to champion causes for which there might not be significant initial support from University Hall.After the Katrina disaster, the University partook in many extraordinary efforts to provide relief to the affected region. Displaced students who could not return to their college campuses were offered the chance to apply for a semester?...
That was radical, highly charged stuff, but in time it found a suitable champion. Teresa of Avila, born in 1515, was one of the Catholic Church's great mystics and--through tireless work founding and defending a new model for convents and monasteries--a heroine of the Counter-Reformation, Catholicism's vigorous response to the challenge of Protestantism. After prayer to Joseph cured her of an early case of paralysis, she adopted him as her "true father," stating that "in heaven God does whatever he commands." Teresa took the Nazareth household as the model for her order and named...
...athletic prowess and strategy won the day for Dunster House. The tournament, well on its way to becoming a beloved Harvard tradition, offered the chance for each upperclass House, as well as University Hall, to form teams and duke it out for the title of Dodgeball champion. The tournament made its debut last December as a joint effort between the Undergraduate Council, the Dean’s office, Harvard Christian Impact’s Athletes in Action, and the Intramurals Program. Dane J. Skillrud ’06, a Dunster resident and member of the winning team, described their overtime...