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Anne Giedinghagen wanted desperately to stay in school. Having struggled with depression and anorexia since the sixth grade, the rail-thin Cornell junior was meeting regularly with a therapist at the university's counseling center in Ithaca, N.Y. But late last fall, when she told her therapist about her increasingly strong urge to kill herself, Giedinghagen received an ultimatum from the school she loved so much: she had to get better or she would have to leave. So she did what any crafty 20-year-old would do. She tried to carve out a third option--feigning improvement...
What a difference a week can make.Seven days ago, the Harvard varsity lightweights opened their season with a dominant performance in Ithaca, where the first varsity dismantled crews from Penn and Cornell in a one-sided fashion uncommon to lightweight rowing.But on Saturday, in the only home race the lightweights will have all year, the Crimson fell flat in front of its partisan crowd. Harvard’s first varsity dropped a back-and-forth battle to Dartmouth on Saturday, relinquishing the Biglin Bowl for the first time in three years. Though the second varsity rowed to a four-seat...
...Harvard softball team opened its Ivy League season yesterday, a day later than was originally planned. Saturday’s doubleheader against Columbia was rained out, and the team had to travel to Ithaca to face Cornell for its first Ivy match-up. The Crimson notched consecutive strong performances against the Big Red, a perennial Ivy favorite, but was unable to generate enough runs to garner a win. In the first game of the doubleheader, Harvard lost 3-0 and, despite a strong start, the team fell again in the second game, losing 8-5.“Cornell...
...months of work on the water and a winter’s worth of training get put to the test for the first time this weekend, when Harvard travels to Ithaca, N.Y., and New Jersey for the first dual competition of the 2006 season. The Crimson will face almost half of its EARC opponents over the weekend, squaring off against Penn and Cornell on Saturday and following up on Sunday with a four-boat race with Delaware, Georgetown, and Rutgers...
Whatever it is, something about that halftime buzzer and the retreat to the locker room flips a switch for the Harvard women’s basketball team. Yet another second half surge, this one spurred on by the Crimson bench, led Harvard to a 78-69 win in Ithaca and a season sweep of the Big Red on Friday. The Crimson reserves exploded for 28 second-half points as Harvard erased a nine-point halftime deficit and overcame Cornell’s torrid shooting from beyond the arc. “We’ve got to get ourselves motivated...