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Kramer found himself in the middle of a benches-clearing incident in the top of the eighth after senior pitcher Sean Haviland took the mound in relief of Nutter and allowed both of his inherited runners to score. UMass almost added another run, but Kramer held on to the ball following a collision at the plate with Minutemen third baseman Ryan Franczek. The two arose from the crash entangled, and a scuffle ensued. The umpiring staff and both teams’ coaches quickly restored order...
...fracas failed to ignite the Crimson bats, and the 3-0 deficit proved insurmountable for Harvard, which was retired in order in both the eighth and ninth innings to close out the loss...
...yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote—from one sixth of the professoriate’s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development was perhaps a first in the nearly two-century history of the Faculty: a failure to achieve quorum in a vote on quorum. Chair of the Economics Department James H. Stock presented yesterday’s legislation, which, in addition to lowering the quorum threshold, would have provided...
...says.MEAN GIRLSFor Maddy Fleming, a recent Harvard acceptee and current senior at the Winsor School, a private all-girls school in Boston, the small amount of gender stereotyping she encountered was quickly outweighed by the positive nature of her experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism,” Fleming says. Joanna Marquina...
...told police that he got the idea from news reports and was only kidding. Another 11-year-old, in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot a teacher's tape player and then the teacher. He apparently did not like the teacher's "obnoxious music." Elizabeth Bush, the eighth-grader in Williamsport, Pa., who dreamed of becoming either a human-rights activist or a nun, shot the head cheerleader in the cafeteria. "No one thought I would go through with this," she yelled as she fired...