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...mail to students Thursday, Nye said that current students and alumni who already receive benefits “will be eligible for LRAP support as long as they meet the qualifying criteria that were in effect when they enrolled...
...could enhance the flavor of wine; of a heart attack; in Genoa, Italy. He took control of the family business in 1957 and spent the next 16 years studying how the shape of a glass could direct wine to specific areas of the tongue. "Aesthetics and excellence are my criteria, not mere convenience," he said of his collection, which grew to six lines of glasses ranging from thimble to fishbowl...
That is the way teams are selected and seeded for the tournament. Into what regional site the teams are placed is subject to a number of other criteria, including the need to avoid conference matchups in the first round, the requirement that any regional host school will be placed at their site, a desire to match the seeds against their opposites (i.e. the overall No. 1 should ideally play the overall No. 16), a requirement to have teams travel as little distance as possible if circumstances allow, and a hope to maximize attendance across all four regional sites...
Based on these criteria, Harvard was sent off to the East Regional in Albany, N.Y. where it will face Maine on Friday at 5 p.m. Given USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings, Maine was the overall No. 3 and Harvard was No. 14, so the seeding criteria works out. And the teams are from different conferences—Harvard and Maine are the ECAC and Hockey East champions respectively. All the matchups, across all the regions, add up by the numbers...
Except one, in my opinion. I have a bone to pick with the NCAA for abandoning a criteria it used to measure a team’s recent success. It could be a team’s last five games, it’s last 10, or the last 16 games, but there definitely should be a weight given to teams that are surging into the NCAA Tournament and those that are backing in. Harvard is one of the teams that is surging. So is Maine. In fact, they are the two hottest teams in the nation; both are riding...