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...winners of two play-in games. That leaves one spot for about five teams in serious contention—BC, Central Michigan, Iowa, Harvard and William & Mary. The Crimson will need BC to win the Big East, all the other four teams to do absolutely nothing to distinguish themselves in their conference tournaments and no other surprises in conference tournaments across the nation to have a chance. In other words, the Crimson’s fate couldn’t be much further out of its own hands...
Good News—The Crimson still has plenty of soccer left to play to distinguish itself. Columbia is second in the New York region, while Penn is first in the Mid-Atlantic region. Harvard has solid wins over Holy Cross (No. 4 New England) and Yale (No. 7 New England) already...
...losses against Princeton and Dartmouth these past two weeks have turned the next two week’s games into must-wins. Harvard had a midweek game against Boston College (No. 2 New England) cancelled earlier this season. That hurts, because it denied the Crimson another chance to distinguish itself...
...Invisible Man doesn’t capture the problem. I’m thinking sometimes, blacks in America are the subject of hypervisibility. Those with the best of intentions want to tell us apart but can’t. Some people just aren’t used to distinguishing black people. There’s no formal segregation in America, but every suburb’s composition doesn’t reflect these legal updates. Through no fault of your own, Harvard may be your first real brush with blackness. And they say when you’re suddenly surrounded...
...tenured professorship at Harvard is the holy grail of American higher education. Aspiring academics spend years publishing or perishing, always trying to distinguish themselves enough to be considered “the leading scholar in the field” and therefore qualify for an appointment to the University’s tenured Faculty. And like the search for the grail, the path to tenure at Harvard is often a mystery. Partly as a result of this inscrutable tenure process, there have been several controversial tenure cases over the last few years where faculty have said they were treated unfairly...