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Once the postseason comes around, almost all teams will have a legitimate shot to win their quarterfinal series and advance to the Lake Placid round...
...seasons, Colgate (19-12-4, 12-8-2, t-5th) has been one of the rising stars in the ECAC. Two years ago it had a stunning late-season collapse, and last year it remained strong through a postseason ride that ended at the conference semifinals in Lake Placid. This could be the year the Red Raiders return to the NCAA playoffs...
Cornell does have an experienced defense, losing only Burgoyne, but it gets hurt a little in goal with only above average tandem of Ian Burt and Matt Underhill. All this adds up to a roller coaster season at noisy Lynah Rink, but probably not a return to Lake Placid...
However, the placid exterior of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)--which also occupies a larger structure across the street--hides an epicenter of the debate over the University's treatment of its junior faculty members, according to a recent report and several faculty members...
...expressions of homophobia are especially significant in that they occurred within the context of Harvard's randomized Houses, which are themselves organized around the notion of a placid diversity. This diversity is one that is in fact all about sameness through the controlled introduction of difference with the express purpose of assimilation. The phantasmatic nature of that equivalence-through-admixture is borne out by the recent homophobic actions of those who would entirely reject any affinity (real or imagined) with queers. Proximity is not dialogue...