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...Snow ’10 describes spectators’ reactions as, “Oh my god, Harvard has a cheerleading squad?! Oh my God, they have a GOOD cheerleading squad!” Besides general stereotypes and biases working against them, the cheerleading squad also had to deal with more concrete, technical issues, such as limited access to practice facilities and a shortage in funding—both of which presented major obstacles in the path to national competition. Coach Kristin Capasso commented on these hurdles, saying cheerleading is “not a priority on Harvard?...
Academic journals are considering implementing novel anti-plagiarism software similar to the type professors use to catch copied work among their students. CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and iParadigms, a software company specializing in intellectual property protection, announced a deal last week to create “CrossCheck,” an anti-plagiarism computer program for academic journals. The software utilizes much of the same technology found in iParadigms’ “TurnItIn,” the program used by colleges to find illicit reproductions in students’ papers, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...partygoers were as enthusiastic. Alyssa J. Mackey ’11 went into the party a lot more jazzed than she left it, having heard from upperclassmen that it was the best party of last year. “We actually thought it was more of a big deal than it was,” Mackey says. “It was kind of a shocker when we showed up in formal dresses.” Despite the less-than-raging location, holding the party off-campus accomplished more than high attendance. “It?...
...Even as the campaign has dragged on and gotten increasingly heated, Obama rarely attacks first. He took more than a week, for example, to hit Clinton after her chief strategist Mark Penn resigned following revelations that he had helped the Colombia government lobby for passage of a free trade deal Clinton opposed. "It's a double-edged sword for him. He's supposed to be new and different, and when he runs negative ads people say what's new and different about this?" said Congressman Jason Altmire, an undecided superdelegate from western Pennsylvania whose district went 66% for Clinton...
...pocket. "In the beginning I don't think his message really resounded. But then Clinton, she has slowly been chipping away my support; she's done everything I hoped she wouldn't. She went there with her attacks. I started leaning towards Obama and today sealed the deal." For Obama, the test will be if enough people like Woods will reward him for resisting the growing pressure to go negative...