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...less success at UMass, although sophomore Sean Gil took the pole vault with a jump of 4.65 meters. Junior Jack Brady notched a third place finish in the hammer throw, but Harvard could not stave off an eighth-place finish, topping only University of Hartford.DRAKE RELAYSSharing the Des Moines, Iowa track at Drake University with professional athletes, the Crimson held its own with strong individual showings.Freshman Nico Weiler had the best effort on the men’s side, breaking his own Harvard record and earning second place in the pole vault with a jump of 5.30 meters. The distance...
...around the country are fielding more appeals for additional aid than usual. At North Carolina's Davidson College, the number of appeals had jumped sixfold by March - before the school had even sent students award letters detailing their financial-aid packages - compared with the same period last year. At Iowa's Grinnell College, appeals for more funds have jumped as much as 50% compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department...
...created the Peace Corps, alongside the President who was inspired by J.F.K. and created AmeriCorps (which, under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, will triple in size) and the new President who has been talking about national service since he was a candidate in the snows of Iowa...
...important to remember that a lot of people on our team are freshmen and sophomores, so we’re a young team,” Geloneck said. “[Yale] had a lot of experience on us.”Harvard will head to Iowa for the Drake Relays coming up next week. This will be the Crimson’s first appearance in the prestigious meet, and both the men and the women are looking to make a good impression at the national level.“We’re always preparing...
...it’s hers.” After graduating from Harvard, Ganeshananthan went on to work at The Atlantic Monthly, returning to her budding novel after work each night. She then went on to graduate with an Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received more feedback on her novel. Ganeshananthan continued to work with her editor and old friend, Rebecca Shapiro, and by its publication in 2008, the story had been transformed. “It was very, very different,” she says. One of the main...