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Kevin Casey, Harvard’s top lobbyist in Washington, D.C., said yesterday the University was more interested in growing the entire pie than protecting its own slice. But he declined to take a position on the reallocation of campus-based financial...
...festivities, now in their fourth year, consist of a pie-eating contest and a highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest?...
...eating competition is the culmination of a two-day training marathon for J. Patrick Coyne ’07. “I haven’t eaten anything in the past two days except for apple pie,” Coyne, who is also a Crimson editor, says while waiting for the results. “It was just the pie and me out there...
However, despite his best efforts, third-year graduate student Erick A. Matsen is announced as the winner over a dramatic piano overture, having consumed 807.5 grams of apple pie in three minutes and 12 seconds. Matsen attributes his win to stellar mental preparation. “I actually was a runner-up last year but I hadn’t gone in believing in myself. This year, I just believed in myself,” Matsen says. However, he admits later that mental preparation is only one element of his carefully crafted battle plan. “For lunch...
Though the number pi goes on forever, unfortunately, the Pi Day festivities must come to a close. Though some may come for the pie, for others, it’s about the glory of victory and the celebration of an enigmatic numeral that literally, as well as proverbially, makes the world turn. “It’s interesting because of pure fascination,” Rivero confides. We’re in awe, alright...