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...Flight C of the tournament, freshman Sophie Chang advanced to the finals, defeating three opponents before falling to No. 1 seed Stephanie Kent of Yale, 6-3, 6-4 in the championship. Over the weekend, Chang took down Blakely Ashley of Princeton, 6-2, 6-4 and then defeated Nadia Solomon-Burgess of Liberty in the quarterfinals. Against the No. 2 seed, Boston College’s Alex Kelleher, Chang emerged with...
...Flight D, freshman Alex Lehman cruised past Charlotte Ezratty of Penn and Carey Aboubakare of Brown in straight sets. In the semifinals, Lehman outlasted Joanna Zwirbulis of St. Johns, 4-6, 6-4, 10-7. In the championship, Dartmouth’s Jesse Adler ended Lehman’s run by a score...
Sophomore Samantha Gridley, in Flight F, was the third Harvard player to make the finals of her draw. She dropped her opponents in straight sets in her first three matches, setting up finals match against the No. 1 seed from Yale, Sarah Lederhandler. Gridley lost the match...
...other singles action, freshman Kristin Norton earned a spot in the Flight A singles draw. She responded by defeating the tournament’s No. 1 seed, Bianca Aboubakare of Brown, 6-3, 6-4. In the next round, Norton fell to eventual champion Nicole Bartnik of Columbia, 6-3, 6-0. In the consolation draw, Norton rebounded with...
Traveling some 27,000 miles, African-American journalist Rich Benjamin roamed the U.S. from 2007 to 2009 exploring a major demographic shift that is attracting remarkably little attention - the flight of white residents from cities and integrated suburbs into cloistered, racially homogeneous enclaves. Tidy communities such as St. George, Utah, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - places Benjamin calls Whitopias - have grown at triple the rate of America's cities in recent years, raising troubling questions about the country's multiracial cohesion. The Stanford literature Ph.D. chronicled his adventure in a new book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey...