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After serving four years as an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, Neil Gross has accepted a tenure offer from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he will start teaching this fall. Gross said that he could not turn down the position that the Canadian university offered him. “UBC was able to offer me tenure now, along with a competitive financial package, the chance to teach in an up-and-coming sociology department, and a great life for me and my family in a beautiful, dynamic, international city,” he wrote...
...People were just cutting loose, playing with confidence. We were pretty formidable.”Indeed, the Crimson’s challenging early-season schedule seems to have paid off brilliantly, as Harvard has had no challenge with any of its ivy League opponents since the Columbia match in the first week. The team has been reliably nabbing the momentum-determining doubles point and then never looking back.With Sunday’s win, the Crimson guarantees itself a berth in the NCAA tournament. Wednesday’s match against Dartmouth will help determine Harvard’s seeding...
...Well, I was here [at Harvard] for the Columbia game when he was a junior,” Polian recalled of the first time he saw Dawson. “He really stood out, and so I marked him down as a prospect and then came back to see him the following year—was convinced that he had the ability to play...
...weight room this morning and I saw a pretty tall, athletic looking guy,” Dawson said. “He took off his sweatshirt and he had a Columbia shirt on. Ivy League recruiting is becoming a lot more common. It’s just great...
...curricular offerings could benefit the jazz culture at Harvard. Everett says that incorporating jazz into the curriculum could help expose the music to non-performers, while Schachter says he believes that many musicians would be interested in engaging with jazz academically if the opportunity were available. Nathan notes that Columbia has a jazz studies track. “It’s not unheard of for an Ivy League school to have a program that devotes itself to jazz,” he says. As for the status of jazz as popular music, Everett recognizes that few students are aware...