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Smith had sent an e-mail to one of her friends at 3 p.m. that made clear her plans for suicide. After reading the e-mail, the friend raced to Smith??s Winthrop House room while others notified authorities...
...Athletes Take a Break,” by Luke Smith ’04, haphazardly quotes a few indiscrete, heated remarks from athletes to present an absurd, monolithic picture of the athlete at Harvard (Op-Ed, Oct. 30). Smith??s own remarks about athletes are far more contemptuous than any remarks he quoted. When men’s heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 observed that athletes won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes...
...Smith??s entourage couldn’t intimidate Oluseyi Fayajnu, who goes by Seyi. Large crowds are nothing new to this New Jersey native. After winning the 1996 National Geography Bee and a $25,000 college scholarship presented in the form of an oversized check, Fayanju waded through a sea of publicity. In addition to interviews with the BBC and the Voice of America, Fayanju appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN and CBS News. “It was a whirlwind year,” he remembers...
...Fayanju rose almost one foot above Smith. This didn’t appear to daunt her as she sassed her way to the table, eager to get her game on because she had a meeting to go to in half an hour. In less than two seconds Fayanju pounded Smith??s arm into the picnic table, almost shattering Smith??s ulna. For the second round they decided to use their left arms. Whispers of “she’s left-handed” came from Smith??s corner of optimistic friends, along...
...don’t have any muscle,” Guey announced, as Smith??s fans encouraged her to put the past two matches behind her. Guey emanated moans and groans as Smith pushed Guey’s arm into the splintery table, symbolically asking Guey to spell “defeat.” Perhaps the spelling bee divined this outcome. “My winning word was vivisepulture,” Guey explains. “I studied, like, roots and stuff of different words. Vivi means alive and sepulture means buried. It means buried alive...