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...season—over.“Honestly, it’s kind of devastating to have that game decide the remainder of the season,” Kessler said. “It was a tough loss—we totally dominated, and we had a number of chances, and it didn’t seem like anything was going our way.”But simply to get to that point was an accomplishment in itself for Harvard.Though the Crimson lost only one contributor from 2008’s fairy-tale team—Olympian Caitlin Cahow...
...Crimson would have liked, the fact that Harvard made the NCAA field for the second-consecutive year shows just how far this program has come. In the course of Coach Rhoads’ five seasons at the helm, the Crimson has won 20 tournaments—four times the number Harvard had won in the team’s entire history before Rhoads joined the program. As can be seen through its performances this year, the Crimson has risen to the top of the Northeast ranks in women’s golf and now looks to tackle tougher competition...
...There were a number of reasons why it should not have happened...
...theory for the growing number of cases like these, says Sinacore, is what he calls "the more relaxed if not blurred boundary lines between teachers and students as teachers try to communicate with kids in this day and age." Today's kids, as the media have reported recently, are far less shy about innocent physical contact like hugging than their parents were as teens. That can be exploited by any male pervert overseeing a classroom. But it can also embolden predatory female teachers, whom experts say are often in emotionally needy states. "The trend with female offenders, more than males...
...should Florida seem to be experiencing an especially high number of such cases? Are those women, and for that matter, the hormonally charged boys they target, somehow egged on by the state's more sexually relaxed atmosphere, with its sultry climate and scantily clad beach culture? (California also has a high rate of teacher sexual misconduct.) Or are Floridians simply reporting more cases like Hernandez's? It is a crime in Florida, as in most states, not to report such cases, but perhaps the tabloid publicity of the Lafave case has prodded Sunshine State denizens to be more vigilant...