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...everyone felt it. When English Professor and resident poet Nikki Giovanni delivered her final comments, it was not clear how her assertions of strength and unity were being received. There was a dangerous undercurrent throughout, a feeling that the professor was striking not quite the right note when she said, "We are Virginia Tech." And when she said that there was tragedy everywhere, including when an elephant was killed for its ivory or a child was killed by a rolling boulder it was hard to tell if she'd quite captured what the crowd was searching...
...Nikki Giovanni, the feminist poet and teacher at Virginia Tech who stirred the campus convocation yesterday with a poem, had Cho in a poetry class two years ago - and it wasn't long before she had him tossed out. "There was something mean about this boy," she said. "Troubled kids get drunk and jump off buildings. It was the meanness that bothered me." Giovanni recalled that Cho came to class in dark sunglasses and a hat. And every day, from very early in the semester, she would ask him to remove the one and then the other. "We would have...
...Nikki Giovanni, the feminist poet and teacher at Virginia Tech who stirred the campus convocation yesterday with a poem, had Cho tossed out of her poetry class two years ago. "There was something mean about this boy," she said. Giovanni recalled that Cho came to class in dark sunglasses and a hat. And every day, from very early in the semester, she would ask him to remove the one and then the other. "We would have this sort of ritual," she said...
...February, Leone took the reins and made sure to bring Shields with him. “It’s definitely great to have a person who’s been through the Harvard experience, even more broadly, the Ivy League experience,” said sophomore co-captain Nikki Rhodes, who first knew Shields as a teammate. “Especially with a coach who hasn’t coached in the Ivy League before, it will be essential to have Katie to help out with the rules. And she knows the way of the league so that?...
...Crimson down 10-7.Through much of the second half, neither team could gain an advantage. Simmons scored her third for Harvard, but Sutton. who led the Crusaders with four goals in the contest, quickly retaliated. Hines and Simmons each notched one more to tie the game up, but Nikki Bolduc scored to give the Crusaders a 13-12 lead.“We felt we had to win this, we had to come back,” Simmons said. “We told ourselves we had to get some goals and the defense really stepped...