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...Saturday Night,” Homaifar was already familiar with the publication. She approached Rankin at an organizations fair and suggested bringing the magazine here, primarily because she believed members of the Harvard community might underestimate the prevalence of sexual assault on campus due to the institution??s prestige.According to Homaifar, because the problem of sexual assault was more prominent at Duke than at Harvard at that time, the Duke community was understandably more concerned with the issue. Homaifar was perhaps referring to an incident in 2006 when three members of the college’s lacrosse team...
...last year, the storyline looked just the same for the Harvard men’s hockey team. The Crimson (5-11-4, 5-6-4 ECAC) is starting to rebound after a lengthy winless streak and looks toward the thrill and fanfare of playing in a venerable Boston-sports institution??the 57th Annual Beanpot Tournament—to jumpstart the momentum. In this tournament, featuring the four elite teams of Boston men’s college hockey, a win always carries special significance. The Crimson played two of the most exciting games of its season at last year?...
...said. “Today we made these wonderful masks.” Geradi said that events such as these were helpful not only for raising the Peabody’s profile, but also for drawing attention to different cultures—one of the institution??s long-standing aims. “It is a good event for us in terms of raising the visibility of the museum,” she said. “But an important part of our mission is to reach out to people and introduce them to other cultures...
...three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution??or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia Eagles football team to his personal...
...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution??s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...