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...Harvard’s varsity eight rowed a particularly strong race on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., beating MIT and Princeton by an impressive margin of more than eight seconds. The Crimson gained a boat-length lead in the first 500 meters of the race, and steadily increased its margins throughout the next 1500 meters, leaving Princeton and MIT to fight it out in its wake...
...settled into a good rhythm, and we were able to move away from MIT and Princeton,” sophomore coxswain Chris Kingston said. “We were expecting Princeton to give us a fast race, but we were able to move ahead early...
Facing severe financial pressures, MIT administrators announced this week that they would cut some of the school’s varsity athletic programs by the end of April—a move that gives Harvard sole claim to having the most varsity teams of any school in the nation. The news of the cuts came after MIT announced that its Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation would have to reduce its spending over the next three years by $1.45 million. Its current annual budget is $12.9 million. MIT athletic officials are currently meeting with student athletes, coaches and interested...
...Don’t Tell policy “is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination.” Thus, “the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program at MIT...
...instead, Harvard has chosen to exclude ROTC from campus. It has chosen not to fund overhead expenses of Harvard students participating in ROTC at MIT. It has chosen not to officially recognize the program. It has included only a section warning students against joining ROTC in its handbook, but nothing commending the service of those in the program. It has disgraced the very students who have shunned lucrative private-sector jobs in the name of service to their country and caused their numbers to dwindle on campus. I am personally aware of students who were accepted to Harvard and chose...