Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are those who are early risers, those who are late sleepers and those who always seem to have drunk too much coffee the night before. Then there are those who row for their House crew teams...
...people do it because of the romance of rowing on the Charles River, some do it to get a good workout," said Jennifer M. Gaudiani '97, a former Dunster crew team captain. Some students are also drawn to the social atmosphere of the House crew teams, which helps establish new friendships and strengthen existing relationships. The common bond among all House rowers? An admiration for the beauty of the sport...
...only tutor currently on the five-boat Kirkland team, Row was introduced to rowing only last year and already shows sign of addiction. He has spent countless hours researching the history of the Kirkland crew team and was even inspired to establish a House rowing club, only to find that one has been quietly existing for over 60 years...
...club dates back to a golden era of House crew in the 1930s, when President Lowell's original seven river Houses were new and participation in athletics was required. Lowell strove to create a college system modeled after that of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, to the extent of placing the new Houses on the river...
Students are attracted by the earnings (ranging from $5 to $100) that they can make less strenuously than by being on Dorm Crew. Being a subject is also a fast and easy way to balance out a limited (or absent) source of income. Brent D. Zettel '01 explains, "Basically, I need some cash flow. I got spanked by my last credit card bill, and these experiments are a fun way to earn it back." And what exactly is Zettel expected to do? "For one of them it says I sleep in their sleep lab for a night, and they wake...