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...their final meets before the Heptagonal Championships at Princeton next weekend, the Harvard track and field teams proved up to the task in two states.Several competitors headed to Philadelphia for the fabled Penn Relays, while the rest of the team spent the weekend at UMass.PENN RELAYSAt the 113th Penn Relays, freshman Eda Karesin led Harvard on Thursday with a second-place finish in the college women’s javelin on the strength of a personal-best throw of 44.75 meters.The throw was also the second-best in Crimson history, qualifying Karesin for NCAA regionals.Teammate and senior co-captain Julia...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night. The battle was like “American Idol” but with a hell of a lot more street cred. Six contestants took part in the veritable verbal skirmishes before an excitable crowd in three rounds. The contestants went head-to-head exchanging heated personal attacks...
...Northeastern student, faced crowd-favorite Finkton. “Bennie Els” rapped that Finkton belonged on the basketball court. Finkton quickly responded, saying he had gotten his “[rhymes] from education” and didn’t need racist jokes to trounce his competitor. Oh snap...
...amateur rappers filled Ticknor Lounge with insults and epithets on Saturday as they faced off in Outwit, a freestyle rap competition. The event pitted the rappers against one another in three-minute matchups during which the competitors rapped over a beat played by Darius P. Felton ’08, a.k.a. DJ Radius. The competition was sponsored by Tuesday Magazine and The Darker Side, a weekend music program on WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. The rapping mostly consisted of personal insults. “This is ‘Bennie Els,’ I play...
...sophomores highlighted a series of strong performances. Sprinter Favia Merritt finished first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.73 and took second in the 100-meter dash in 11.96 seconds.Both times were good enough to qualify for the ECAC Championships. High jumper Becky Christensen, the only competitor to clear 1.60 meters, achieved a personal best by topping the bar at 1.83 meters. “After my first attempt, I tried to focus and get relaxed,” Christensen said. “I normally go to my coach for advice after a missed attempt...