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...saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Now, brothers Michael E. Kopko ’07 and Matthew Kopko want to leverage the power of communities to help pay for college. Their new web application, GradeFund, uses the “marathon model” to achieve this goal, said Matthew, a member of the Princeton class of 2008. Just as marathon runners can ask friends and family to pledge money toward a race bid, GradeFund allows students to invite family members, friends, doctors, coaches, and other community members to pledge money towards their education. Donors...
...Greek pop sensation “Petros”—in the gym of the Malkin Athletic Center to raise money for cancer research. From 10 p.m. Friday night to 8 a.m. Saturday, the Harvard Premedical Society and the Harvard Cancer Society held a dance marathon in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, which provides fundraising support for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “Dance marathons have grown in importance in many other college campuses, becoming essentially what Harvard-Yale is to Harvard right now,” said Bianca A. Verma...
...enjoyed an a cappella performance by the Din & Tonics, and cheered the Harvard football team to a victory against Columbia at Harvard Stadium. The parents of Collin A. Jones ’12, who opted for coffee in the Memorial Hall transept rather than participating in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge around campus, said they enjoyed spending time with their son and meeting his roommates in Wigglesworth. The balancing act between academic, extracurricular, and social life formed the common thread running through many of the weekend’s activities and served as the basis for the panel discussion...
Street Sweepers. If you'll be in town this weekend, check out the New York City Marathon runners make their way through all five boroughs on Nov. 2. The course starts in Staten Island and finishes in Central Park; there are two good places in Manhattan to cheer the athletes - along First Avenue, between East 59th Street and the East 90s, and along Fifth Avenue south of East 110th Street, until the exhausted marathoners make their turn into the Park. If you're trying to get out of New York City, be aware of street and bridge closings, detailed...
Nearly every student organization has, at some point or another, engaged in the Harvard tradition of postering—an early morning marathon of sorts that consists of running from one flat surface to another, sheaves of paper in hand. As members of a scholarly community, we all benefit from these posters—regardless of whether we agree with a particular student group’s aims. Thus, the news that the posters of Harvard Right to Life (HRL) were being subjected to “serious and persistent instances of vandalism” was cause for concern...