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...practice—an injury originally sustained in week two against Brown—the junior learned that he would almost certainly miss the remainder of the season.This week, both Mazza and Crimson coach Tim Murphy indicated that, unless the wideout makes a miraculous recovery, he will look to gain an extra year of eligibility.The Ivy league does not allow players to redshirt a year, but it does provide a “fifth-year medical hardship eligibility year” if a player does not compete in more than two games in a season due to injury.Mazza played...
Selective adoption of the EPC’s proposals will allow students to gain from increased flexibility while retaining the benefits of access to concentration advising and concentration tutorials in the first semester of the sophomore year. And with fewer requirements, students will find it less difficult to switch concentrations after the first semester of their sophomore years or at any time during their Harvard careers. For example, if a student decides on anthropology at the end of her freshman year, she can still easily switch to history the next spring. With fewer requirements, she will be able to make...
...member of the Leverett House senior common room, David R. Slavitt, ran for state representative as a Republican last year. He says he tried to gain campaign support from campus Republican organizations. The College Republicans he spoke with, he says, were receptive but flaky...
...Iran's New Man Re your interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Sept. 26]: In discussing the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran more than 25 years ago, he said, "Sometimes, in order to gain your rights, you have to do certain things." That sounds as if he condones any type of behavior. But in answer to a question about al-Zarqawi's call for violence against Shi'ites in Iraq, he said, "Any decision that leads to the killing of innocents is something that we reject." Comparing his answer rejecting the use of violence...
...nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with what the Educational Testing Service (ETS) calls the most significant overhaul in the GRE’s 55-year history, the test is likely to gain much-needed relevance as an indicator of ability to carry out graduate work. After four years of research consisting chiefly of consultation with the graduate school deans who sit on the GRE board, ETS will revamp all three sections of the test to include different types of questions. The verbal section...