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...League is justifiably proud of its athletes. The vast majority of Ivy athletes are serious students who graduate and attend graduate schools at the same rate as their non-athletic peers and who earn more money in the workplace. But the Ivy League’s pride in having higher principles and greater integrity than any other Division I athletic conference is unwarranted. As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting process uglier than...
...pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year, the house actually produces more power than it consumes. Or, as Good puts it, "there are days when the electric meter spins backward." That means not only...
...says Porter, “but I had never done a play before.” Taking on the intense subject matter was also a challenge for the cast, but Porter adds that they were able to “go back and forth in and out of that [serious] mindset. We’ll be joking around [on the set] and then rehearsing a scene in the second act which is very serious. It’s interesting to see how people [respond].” Whether one has seen Bernstein’s famed original...
...wildly anticipated RoboCup US Open in Atlanta, Ga. The Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC), the hometown favorites, will—according to club co-president Jeffrey K.L. Ma ’07—“create a big splash, and show everyone else we’re serious.” Expect big competition from Carnegie Mellon University, a club that’s been on the robot soccer circuit since 1997. Yet with the banning of “vertical dribblers”—whose skills are “just too good...
...gets reminders from his e-mail in text messages. It seems that this science whiz has never failed, and he’d probably be the first to agree. “I always win,” he said. “I’m serious...