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...conditioning and the constant improvement are incentive enough.“By November, December, I had started feeling really good about crew,” Carpenter says. “We’d been working out for a while and I’d started seeing some really drastic improvements in my own performance.”The team’s true racing season, however, does not begin until April. Muri expects that no more than 30 freshmen will remain with the team by the spring. And with spring comes the weekly weigh-in for lightweights, an added...
...hours after a $90,000 fundraiser in the area headlined by White House spokesman Tony Snow, told local reporters that a win this fall could "change things for the next 20 years." But given how similar politically Davis and Lucas are, perhaps those changes won't be as drastic as Biden and his fellow Democrats would like to believe...
Harvard students should be required to study religion and U.S. history, according to a new curricular review report that emphasizes global citizenship and represents a drastic departure from the past two years’ attempts to replace the generation-old Core...
...stays silent; a new UC could express the general student spirit and opinion. At the same time, the UC would be less radical than the various self-selecting campus interest groups, who would depend upon the UC as a reliable gateway to the administration. Of course, such a drastic overhaul of campus politics cannot happen within the current system of elections. Although making Houses “electoral districts” is a great idea, the problem lies in the fact that representatives are elected individually. For instance, there is no communication among candidates to create a common plan...
...revealing look at the school's early and regular admissions pools. Numbers in hand, reporter Marina Agapakis finds that Dartmouth's early pool is far less diverse and far more affluent than those who apply to the school through regular admissions. The differences are suprisingly staggering: The most drastic difference in representation between the two pools is in minority matriculants; 19 percent of matriculants from the early decision pool are racial minorities, whereas 40 percent of those accepted in the regular pool are considered minorities...