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...Saturday, the Harvard squad had a tough time getting things going. Junior Neville Irani started things off with a 16.77m (55’2.5”) weight throw, good enough for an eighth-place bid.Freshman Sean Gil followed, earning fifth place in the men’s pole vault with a 4.80m (15’9”), just .2 m shy of the leader.Hot off last year’s 3.80m (12’5.5”) clearance in last year’s Indoor Heps pole vault, senior Clara Blattler only managed...
...last weekend’s jump was really 1.79m. “But in terms of the Ivy League, the really good high jumper graduated last year so there won’t really be any competition.” Clara Blattler—who set the Harvard pole-vaulting record last year—is fresh off a first-place finish in last weekend’s event. And with Dartmouth’s Lilly Bertz having graduated last season, it only paves the way for continued success for the the Crimson vaulters. And junior Brittan Smith...
...leap. Freshmen Jessica Fronk and Dina Emde rounded out the Crimson effort with 5.12m and 4.44m jumps for eighth and 17th place finishes, respectively. Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler finished in a three-way tie with AirTime Athletic’s Ashley Nolet atop the pole vault finishers by clearing a 3.65m bar. With fewer misses than the other two, Blattler took first place in the event. Junior Becky Christensen rounded out the Harvard competitors with a first-place 1.78m clearance in the high jump. “A lot of people who usually compete...
...help. But the truth is that for the Arctic, at least, the sheer momentum of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere means that profound climatic change is virtually unavoidable, no matter what we do. "Within a decade or less, it's going to be impossible to reach the North Pole," says Steger. "If we're not taking action immediately, we're running out of time." Man your computers - GlobalWarming101.com might give you a last glimpse of a dying polar world...
...something else there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side of the stage. I tried not to speculate about what it was going to be used for. “You came to see naked ladies, right?” founder and tour manager Annie Oakley called out as the show began. The audience whooped...