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Despite early concerns about replacing All-Ivy defensive end Brian Garcia, the Harvard defensive ends have been stellar all season. Freshman Desmond Bryant—known as ‘The Freak’ by his teammates due to his uncanny resemblance in playing style to Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse—has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the Ivy League with four sacks and six tackles for a loss. Sophomore Michael Berg and junior Erik Grimm rotate in at defensive end for the Crimson, and both have played well despite injury problems...
...University receives wide-spread criticism when Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu publicly endorses three pro-divestment candidates for the Board of Overseers in 1986 and tells the Boston Globe that he will return his honorary degree if the University does not divest. Tutu resigns from the board...
Make the issue an issue by gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...
...investments have crossed paths with a controversial African regime: In the 1970s and 1980s, the University seemed to do its best to maintain its state and private investments in the white-minority South African regime, still in the grip of apartheid. Even the election of anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1989 did not convince the University to fully divest...
When the ACC came running, Desmond Bryant stuffed it like a draw play up the middle. The freshman from Elizabethtown, N.C. sidestepped both Duke’s offer as well as interest from Wake Forest, UNC and NC State to test out the greener—if smaller—pastures of the Ivy League...