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...social protest as much as a who’s who amongst the world’s best athletes. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, held in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, proved the ideal setting for public dissent. And the U.S. Olympic crew, made up entirely of Harry Parker’s varsity eight from Harvard, became the face of the repugnant hippie undercurrent the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to stamp out of the Mexico City Games. The Crimson’s attempt to qualify for the 1968 Olympics was rocky...
...fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they were rowing in high school.“Some...
...said. “I came to Harvard, and the only sports you could just pick up and walk on to were basically track and rowing. I decided that I had a little bit better of a physique for rowing than for running.”As the Harvard crew program lands many of the most coveted recruits in the world, Wintner definitely had his work cut out for him as a walk-on in his freshman season. But Wintner, as he once was on the ice in his native Canada, was up to the challenge on the Charles...
Over the past seven years, women’s lightweight head coach Cecile Tucker has molded the lightweight crew program into the championship contender it is today. Upon the birth of her second child, however, Tucker will hand the reins over to coaches Will Stevens, who will direct the varisty, and Seth Davis, who will head the novice and walk-on programs. This represents a major transition for the entire team, especially the upperclassmen who have worked under Tucker.“It’s definitely going to be a big change,” says sophomore Lizzy Mazjoub...
...group decides it might be a good idea to stay the night at the Bates Motel. They sprint past Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and barricade themselves in a room. After a female companion dies in a tragic banana-knife-shower-prank accident, Wes and crew evacuate the room and proceed to get kicked down a flight of stairs by an evil Paris Hilton. Finally, just like the ending of Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Wes runs into himself dressed as an old woman. Now we see why Scantlin’s been yelling...