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...English. They don’t get to go outside,” April says, adding with a smile. “But he is loved. He’s so loved.” Miles has been a regular since he was seven months old, since the day April started graduate school—for the first time, at least...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Across the river, biology graduate student Sebastián Vélez is weaving his bike through morning rush hour, his six-year-old daughter in tow. Their finances are better now than they’ve been in years. Mariana’s clothes come from stores, instead of the Salvation Army. She gets a piano lesson once a week. And last year, Sebastián even took her and her step-sister, whom he also helps support, to Niagara Falls for a weekend. Not long ago, Sebastián won the equivalent of the grad student lottery...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

April is still hanging on. She initially started her Ph.D. when Miles was seven months old, but quickly felt overwhelmed. “It lasted a month and a half. He wasn’t sleeping, I couldn’t keep up with classes, milk was everywhere,” she says. “It just didn’t work.” Her adviser suggested she take a year off and return when Miles was older. So April took a job at a lab to help support herself, and by the time she returned, they...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...nurse enters, greeting the bawling four-year-old with great enthusiasm. But Mr. Miles is unamused. He won’t stand still on the scale or against the wall to be weighed and measured. After a few minutes of screaming, April gets on the scale with him so the nurse can do her work by subtraction...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Both teams consider the other their most mortal rival,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “It’s an old long-standing rivalry—it’s like Harvard and Yale with football...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Women's Water Polo Game Cancelled | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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