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There are some crucial college lessons that you just can't learn inside a classroom: how to make friends, how to manage your time, how to set fire to boats and release them into the Charles. The most important teaching to remember from your university experience, it seems? WASH YOUR HANDS...
...most historic traditions, but try telling that to the scores of freshmen who experienced a police crackdown in the recent Housing Day “Quad boat incident.” For several years, freshmen students have trudged to the Charles River to light small boats on fire on the eve of Housing Day in hope of securing a desired House placement. This year, however, Cambridge and Harvard police aggressively shut down the ritual. Several boats of more outlandish construction may have merited intervention, but the overall crackdown carried out by HUPD was excessive. It seems incredible that...
...three batters in three innings. Junior Dana Roberts relieved Moore and recorded the win, pitching a perfect fourth along the way. Vertovez contributed two perfect frames before junior Margaux Black stepped in to finish the job.HARVARD 2, BRYANT 1The Crimson hoped to come out against Bryant with that same fire it had in its second matchup with the Spartans. “We had lulled in the first game [against UNCG], and figuring out how not to lull in the first game on Thursday was one of our goals,” said Vertovez.Harvard scored only two runs, however, both...
...playoffs, the start of baseball, and the upcoming Masters golf tournament are grabbing fans attention. Soccer is busy, too with MLS in full swing and the U.S. men's team in World Cup qualifying. Somehow, the WPS has to break through. "The league really has to catch fire early," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...
Every successful social movement has its defining images. Think of the civil rights movement, and the photos of protesters being attacked by police dogs and pummeled by high-pressure fire hoses. Or the Vietnam anti-war movement, and the video of body bags being beamed back to America's living rooms. Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica. To help galvanize public support - especially around a complex issue...