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...second varsity finished at 8:26.0, 5.9 seconds better than the Wisconsin C squad but 20.2 seconds behind the Badgers’ B boat.“I think it was a great weekend to be able to race more than one team,” junior Medha Khandelwal said. “To get into a situation where you have six boats across and line up and go through the whole process, it was a great chance to race Wisconsin, which is a perennial national champion this early in this season.”During the first round...
...elements challenged the Black and White’s rowers to maintain composure and strong fundamentals, but Radcliffe’s practice appears to be paying off. “In these conditions, you have to say composed and stick to the practice and techniques,” junior Medha Khandelwhal said. “It’s easy to get flustered and let your technique go downhill and let the situation overwhelm you, but we did a good job taking control.” The second varsity eight scored the first victory of the day, topping the Hoyas...
...recruits include freshmen rowers Molly Tarrant, Amanda Pfabe, Lani Skipper, Lizzy Majzoub, Medha Khandelwal, Laura Horton, Grace Hollowell, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, and junior coxswain Brady Mellett. Whereas most of the rowers on the varsity boats have rowed with each other a year of more, the entire novice eight boat, as freshmen, was put together from scratch. That the team could become so dominant in such a short time is quite unusual given that none of the players had ever rowed together in the same boat...
...MEDHA PATKAR...
...planner's dream: dams to harness central India's Narmada River. But Medha Patkar, a young, largely self-taught activist, was appalled by the price: huge amounts of land swamped, half a million villagers displaced and a lush river basin ruined. Leading hunger strikes, enduring beatings and vowing to drown herself in a flooded area, she got the World Bank to withdraw support of the key Sardar Sarovar dam and scared off investors from a second major dam. But the Indian government persists with the project, and Patkar fights...