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...battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.” So sayeth Napoleon Bonaparte, but the same could be said for the Ivy League...
...then-sophomore Cheng Ho and then-freshman Gino Gordon to mix things up and try to establish a solid run game, but the position remained the lone unfinished product in an otherwise rock solid offensive attack.But one week into 2008, there’s a new face on the scene threatening to give the Crimson offense a boost. Enter junior Ben Jenkins.Last weekend against Holy Cross, the Raleigh, N.C. native made his first-ever collegiate start at running back and seemed to settle into the position quickly, rushing nine times for 34 yards. Fans saw flashes of brilliance...
...profit organizations, and fraternities and sororities to enhance their social network off-campus and increase their post-graduate opportunities. “If we get people jobs and help them while they’re here, they’ll stay here, especially if they have a social scene, a community, a family,” said BBSN Executive Director Jarell L. Lee ’10. Lee said his vision in planning this year’s event was two-fold: creating a bridge among black college students, and between college students and the greater Boston community. Saturday?...
...scene has the aspect of warfare about it. Nobody looks at each other, though all recognize that they are locked in a high-stakes battle for square inches. Yet a tentative order tempers the chaos: All at once, somebody searching for space covers the bottom third of another poster, obscuring the date and location of the Glassblowing Society’s first meeting. The wounded party shoots an angry glance at the offender. Perhaps the fight will break out into outright poster defacing, silent and malicious, or perhaps the infraction will be allowed to pass...
...Even if it is tempting to look with disdain or bemusement upon these fanatical customs, the good anthropologist must remember that every cultural scene is the product out of a legitimate system of meaning. For the bleary-eyed people who come out here every morning, there is a sort of mysticism in their extracurricular plans, and a deeply—held belief in the efficacy of their eight-and-a-half-by-eleven” icons. And so, when I left the Yard that morning, head full of field notes, I had already began to miss these people and their...