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...been a haven for bizarre eating habits. “It was easy to lose the first ten,” says Nick S. Downing ’07 about “making weight” for the freshman lightweight rowing team. The 5’11 rower arrived at Harvard weighing 173 pounds. To compete, Downing had to slim down to just over 150 pounds. “Everyone has to lose weight,” he says. “You’re all going through this together.” While he admits to feeling...
...short for ergometer, is a training device used by rowers to simulate rowing in water. A stint on the erg is, as one rower described to me, “seven minutes of wanting to kill yourself...
...major changes in this year’s event was the discontinuation of the heat system. In previous years, rowers would race in the morning in heats and go again in the afternoon in the finals. For the 2004 edition of Crash-B’s, there were only finals, meaning that each rower only had to race once...
...company of other people—in the dorm, in our dining halls, in class, next to us on the treadmills. Unless you score a single in Cabot and embrace a hermitic lifestyle, chances are that the shower is your only guaranteed source of privacy throughout college. (As a rower, I don’t often enjoy even that small dose of seclusion: Newell Boathouse’s communal shower is the norm...
...conventional notion to the test in the style of MTV’s Room Raiders. We challenged Wesley H. Kauble ’06 to choose a dream date out of a pool of eager sweethearts based solely on their interpretations of standard-issue university housing. Kauble, a lightweight rower and Undergraduate Council dynamo, purchased a car dealership with his winnings on NBC’s Weakest Link in his junior year of high school. But can a wide array of interests and experiences help him correctly decipher his true love based on her underwear drawer...