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...Artand Ritual.” The creator of this class, visiting lecturer Christine W. Dakin, will be sending Chin to her program, Danzefest, in Italy. In June, Chin will also be attending Springboard Danse Montreal, a program founded by a Julliard professor that accepts just 60 dancers from the country??s best conservatories. Despite the many artistic opportunities coming her way, Chin remains grounded and humbled by the Harvard community. “For me the biggest element is to know that I have such amazing support,” she says of winning the OFA?...
Then-sophomore J.P. O’Connor finished sixth in the country that year, marking Harvard’s third straight season with an All-American competitor. The squad only improved this season, with sophomore Corey Jantzen and Caputo joining him among the country??s elite. All three wrestlers hovered in the top 10 for their weight class all season en route to the NCAA championships, with Caputo taking All-American honors for an eighth place finish...
...places to buy local produce. He said that New England’s best produce specialties include fiddlehead ferns, wild ramps, apples, cranberries, and nettles. His enthusiasm about food history was evident as he described how Concord, MA used to be the “asparagus capital of the country?? in the late 1800’s. The event organizer, Heather Gain, said she thought the event was “fantastic,” adding that Harvard Bookstore loved working with and promoting fellow local independent businesses. She was very happy with the turnout of over...
...Lithuania, Balcetis explains, “we have academic schools and basketball schools.” A product of the Sarunas Marciulionis Basketball Academy, named after the first Lithuanian player to go to the NBA, Balcetis also played for his country??s junior national team. Upon reaching high school age, however, he had not yet decided whether to focus on athletics or academics. So he moved to America...
...place where thousands of North Koreans go to flee oppression and famine suffered under a closed communist government. He had no immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country??—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad—Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights...