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Freshman sabre fencer Caroline Vloka has let the entire nation know that she is here to stay. Vloka capped off an impressive rookie season last March, finishing the NCAA tournament with a silver medal in the sabre, second in the nation to Duke freshman Becca Ward. As one of the most consistent fencers on the women’s team, Vloka participated in every match for the Crimson this year, guiding the team to a 20-1 overall record. Vloka, a stranger to defeat, finished with a perfect record in many key tournaments throughout the year. She went...
...It’s hard to be completely happy with a silver medal, but it’s also hard to be really disappointed when you know you’ve performed well,” said Overington, who is in the varsity eight. “It was a bunch of solid performances that combined together for a great team performance...
...when the entries for NCAAs are released, it will be that much closer to extending its season. The day was filled with windy conditions as the first crews took to the water, but for the Radcliffe heavyweights, that was the last thing on their minds. Ranked just out of medaling contention in every race except the third varsity B four, the Black and White was ready to assert itself as a team to beat. “We wanted to go out there and come in above our seeding,” varsity coxswain Jill Carlson said...
...works in 2008, an honor accorded to the likes of Emerson and Whitman, and a course setting his work alongside Philip Larkin’s was offered at Harvard this spring. To top it off, yesterday President Faust presented Ashbery, now 81 years old, with the 2009 Harvard Arts Medal for “excellence in the arts and contributions to education and the public good through arts...
...chuckles when asked why he thinks he’s receiving the award (“Somebody at Harvard must think I do something for the ‘public good.’”), he notes the poetic justice of capping his career with a medal from the institution where he got his start. “It’s very nice to get something from Harvard, where I set out from long ago,” he says. “There is a certain symmetry...