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...such a thing as higher and lower education,” said Minnijean Brown-Trickey, 65, one of the “Little Rock Nine” widely covered in the media in 1957, speaking at the Institute of Politics last night during a ceremony to honor her work in the past half century. W.E.B DuBois professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates presented Brown-Trickey with the W.E.B. Dubois Medal for continuing to advocate for minority groups after being expelled from Little Rock Central. During the event, HBO screened a documentary examining...
...even worse than that, because fans don't treat just the players on opposing teams as means rather than ends; they treat their own players the same way. Sports are often compared to war. The team is our army, battling for our honor. But there's a key twist: the players aren't citizen-soldiers; they're mercenaries. They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they...
...youth national championship, and was recently selected as Ivy League Player of the Week. This season has also seen other Crimson players in the national spotlight. Junior Michael Fucito was named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week, as well as the Ivy League Honor Roll along with his teammate, senior co-captain Matt Hoff. Hoff was also selected to the College Soccer News National Team of the Week, and freshman Alex Chi was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week. “It’s great that our guys are getting...
...Hanzich, a native of Orange County, Calif., earned a slew of academic honors at Harvard while studying government, and served as a leader of several campus groups. He graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and attended the University of Cambridge on a prestigious scholarship to earn a master’s degree in public health. He was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship...
...share of accolades on the field with the Crimson. Both players were named Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season, while Akpan also picked up an All-Ivy First Team nod. Akpan and Mann’s counterparts from the opposite team were named to the Ivy League Honor Roll. Senior goalkeeper Adam Hahn impressed in net with six saves for the men, while freshman forward Gina Wideroff scored two game-winning goals in Harvard victories for the women. —EMILY W. CUNNINGHAM