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...Straus Cup victory last year, IM representative Andrew M. Prince ’10 attributed Winthrop’s success (both past and future) to an effective effort to encourage student participation. Prince said that instead of relying on a consistent contingent of 15 to 20 IM participants??which he said other House IM teams are comprised of—Winthrop can rely on wide participation. According to Rosen, who spearheaded the installment of the trophy case, the display serves a dual purpose: commemorating past intramural victories and memorializing the concerted efforts of the House community. Though Prince...
Since pedometers are being used to track participants?? distances, organizers acknowledged that cheating could be a problem during the competition. Pedometers are sensitive to any up-and-down motion, so particularly willful participants could simply shake their pedometers to log “steps...
...Espartaco, a “wiki for human rights” he has been working on to help Latin American human rights groups share information. He said his hope is to harness the tremendous resources of American students for the benefit of the movement. The event’s participants??many of whom were Cambridge residents not affiliated with Harvard—expressed positive reactions to the presentation. Panagiotis Angelopoulos ’12, who came to the talk because of his own interest in Latin American human rights, said he appreciated the speaker’s unique...
...that women are less prone to risky behavior than men. “Because you see these sex differences in risk-taking, we hypothesized that testosterone may play a role,” said Coren L. Apicella, a graduate student in anthropology who co-authored the study. They measured participants?? testosterone levels by taking samples of their saliva and by evaluating the “maleness” of their faces—a larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking...
Want to bring up your grades this semester? Take a nap. At least that’s what a recent Harvard study suggests. The experiment tested memory used for factual recall and found that a 45-minute nap boosted participants?? ability to remember recently learned information...