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...Rand not only ski jumps, he does so at heights from which you and I would suffer nose bleeds. Try 70 meters, and you'll have to conduct a pretty extensive search of the Harvard record books to discover the last Crimson skier who tried that...
...results, his best finish a year ago was 32nd at Middlebury, this winter he made it to 24th at Dartmouth, and considering his dearth of experince and the fact that Rand considers ski jumping a hobby, that's not bad. "At least this year," he said, "I could think about things while jumping other than survival...
Like the fact that despite their repeated low finishes in the admittedly difficult Division I carnivals, the skiers have a great time. Their weekends usually begin on Wednesday, and as Rand says, "It's like a five-day party. We have a great time. Anyone that does work gets yelled at. I learned not to bring books last year when I brought them one weekend and then lost them...
...however, Rand is feeling the effects of his two-month dose of five-day weekends. The work has piled up as high as a 50-meter jump, and when Wednesdays roll around, despite his itching to get out of Cambridge, Harvard's best (and one of three) ski jumpers hits the books instead of the slopes...
...skiing definitely screws everything up," Rand said yesterday before jumping into some Chem 20 (Rand is by no means pre-med--he just likes science for science's sake). "There was one stretch when I didn't go to French for three weeks straight, and a few weeks ago I had to take a Chem 20 hourly at Middlebury, which didn't work. I flunked the hell...