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...blistering pace in the first quarter, shutting out its opponents and taking an early 6-0 advantage. Junior netminder Jay Connolly, who recorded 12 saves on the night, held Connecticut College scoreless until well into the second period. “He’s always been of the nation??s best goalkeepers,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “As our last line of defense, it’s good to have someone like that in the net.” With the pressure mounting off the heels of consecutive Camel goals...
Lafayette’s defense entered the contest as the nation??s top defense in both points (8.8) and yards allowed per game (210). Harvard, meanwhile, was ranked among the top defenses in the Ivy League and in the top 20 in the country in both rushing and passing defense. But in the first half, it wasn’t clear that either defense was heavily involved. By halftime, the score stood at 17-17, though the entire half involved only two scoring drives longer than 50 yards, the first a 10-play, 86-yard touchdown drive...
Lafayette has beefed up its nation??s-best defensive numbers (8.8 points and 210 yards allowed per game) against patsy opponents like Marist, Georgetown, and Columbia. Princeton knocked off the Leopards on the road by wearing them down in the trenches, not Harvard’s forte to this point. In Anthony D’Urso and Maurice White, Lafayette suits up two of the top five rushers in its league...
...better students, and using their financial aid to get it,” he says.Even though these experts don’t see the tuition-free model as a positive good, not all students agree with them.Olin sophomore Jeffery H. Moore applied and was accepted to some of the nation??s most elite colleges, including Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, and Olin. While he describes his background as upper-middle class, he says that his family could not have afforded the $40,000 price tags of the Ivy League easily, which led him to turn down Columbia, a school...
...Columbine High School, media pundits and politicians have tried to illustrate how video games have a direct impact on children’s behavior. While the narrative makes for a compelling segment on the local news—and provides a reason and a target for a traumatized nation??it’s false and truly damaging. The physical evidence that links video game usage to violent behavior is distorted and inadequate—at best. When the American Psychiatric Association, in 2002, published a report entitled “Violent Games Can Increase Aggression?...