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Stephanie Schnitter became the latest member of the women’s tennis team to collect a tournament title on Monday, as the sophomore no. 1 seed claimed the singles crown at the Big Green Invitational in Hanover, NH with a 6-3, 6-4 win over no. 2 Andreea Novaceanu of Buffalo. Schnitter is the first Harvard woman to win the Big Green Invitational since the tournament’s beginning three years ago, and she did so by steamrolling the field without dropping a single set. Her win is the third major victory and first singles triumph...
More movies should be like “Demon Seed.” That’s right, “Demon Seed,” the trashy 1977 adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel about an evil computer that impregnates Julie Christie. I should also mention that the computer, whose name is Proteus, uses a bronze metal phallus.Why must we look back in disgusted admiration at such an objectively absurd film? Certainly not because American cinema is in need of more misogyny, more rape scenes, or more metal phalli. Rather, our horror films—which are supposedly...
...National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships. “We’ve never really done this well in regionals, especially in doubles,” Anderson said. “So we were really happy with the way we played.” Harvard’s top duo was seeded first after winning the doubles title at the Cissie Leary Memorial Tournament in September and playing well at the Riviera/ITA All-Americans. The pair managed to live up to their high billing. The championship match was the anticipated contest between the first and second seeds, matching the Crimson against Maryland?...
Harvard entered six singles players in the 2005 Wilson/ITA Regional Championships at Dartmouth this weekend, but only freshman Sasha Ermakov advanced as far as the round of 16. Ermakov was seeded No. 16 in the 64-man field, but he bowed out in a three-setter against the No. 4 seed, Mark Barry, of Penn State. Nineteenth seed Chris Clayton and junior Scott Denenberg advanced to the third round, but both fell in straight sets. In the doubles draw, the No. 9 pair of Ermakov and senior Brian Wan defeated the No. 7 pair from Virginia Tech...
...team represented itself well during opening action at the Wilson/ITA Women’s East Regional Championships at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center in West Point, N.Y. over the weekend. All five members of the Crimson in the singles draw won on Saturday after first round byes, including No. 4 seed Eva Wang, No. 5 Melissa Anderson, No. 9 Preethi Mukundan, and No. 10 Laura Peterzan. Wang, Anderson and Peterzan all were victorious again yesterday, advancing to the round of 16. Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter was not seeded in the singles draw, but had perhaps the most impressive showing of the five...