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...beat Harvard. No wonder the students seem to think their half-hearted attempts at pranks and taunts are somehow worthwhile—it’s hard to act like a winner when you don’t know the moves. Even the Yalie’s canine mascot, Handsome Dan, knows how to pick sides, choosing to take a stroll to visit the eventual victors at the end of halftime.And in the stands, Harvard students yet again out-heckled their blue-blooded counterparts. Redundant shouts of “Harvard sucks” rang hollow against...
...time, the team's 110 employees, many with homes damaged or destroyed and families left behind in New Orleans or diaspora cities from Atlanta to Washington, needed to secure new sponsorships, resell tickets and replace everything from the team's marketing director--too stressed to keep working, to the mascot's costume, soiled by flooding. The Hornets offer a glimpse into the cruel challenge many Gulf Coast businesses now face post-Katrina: trying to mend a brand while managing social trauma. Hornets president Paul Mott says, "This has been like one long, long, long...
...coalition of 90 university faculty members and human rights advocates is urging Harvard—and all NCAA Division I schools—to cease competition with teams bearing Native American names and mascots. Specifically condemning the University of Illinois Fighting Illini and the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux, the group of primarily university professors conveyed its position in a letter sent to Division I university presidents, chancellors, and athletic directors. The document encouraged them to end intercollegiate play with the 18 schools that were barred from hosting championship tournaments in an August NCAA ruling. That same decision labeled...
...involved with a firm while I still lived in Germany. I didn’t participate in the fighting, but I was accepted as the firm’s mascot. I met a couple of hooligans while I was teaching martial arts, and I begged them to let me tag along. They were quite considerate and protective...
...research and ROTC participation Berea and Kenyon are among Top 10 Schools You've Never Heard Of The two top music-business schools: N.Y.U. and Belmont University Where U.S. News' winners rank Princeton lags at No. 44 because relatively few Tigers receive Pell Grants With its purple-cow mascot, Williams makes the Most Spirited Top 10 Another plus for Harvard: Boston is deemed one of the Top 10 music scenes Extra credit California state schools UCLA, Berkeley and San Diego all make the Top 10 Best euphemism: Top 10 Fun-Loving Schools (e.g., Holy Cross and Bucknell) Free Napster access...