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Ohiri was one of the first participants in what would become the African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU), an initiative to provide higher education for people of the increasing number of independent African countries. The program ran from 1961 to 1975, and facilitated full scholarships to American universities for 1,600 African students...
...same time, the Nigerian government sponsored scholarships to students to study abroad in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, according to Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07, a second-year Ph.D. student in the African Studies department. One consequence of this program was that most current undergraduates with a connection to the country are Nigerian-American; Ogunnaike’s own father attended the University of Wisconsin on a scholarship provided by the Nigerian government...
...many new coaches, the first few years are meant for imposing new order and making sure players don’t feel too secure in their spots. When Jamie Clark took over the already successful Harvard men’s soccer program, he took the opposite approach, showing confidence in his players’ abilities...
...sold-out crowd, many of whom were students who had to lottery to get a ticket to the game. This happened several more times throughout the season, thanks to a group of students who marketed the games to the student body. The women’s basketball program never had students fighting to get tickets to its games. Furthermore, women’s basketball has won at least a share of 11 Ivy League championships in its history, including a devastating upset of No. 1 seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament. Men’s basketball...
...same time. This greatly benefited the softball team, as we were able to lure Harvard baseball fans—there seemed to always be an abundance of them—to glance over at our field and watch a few innings. That year, baseball had its worst record in program history, starting 2-22, while we would go on to our second straight appearance in the Ivy League Championship. Yet they still had more fans...