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...that the Harvard women’s foil fencing squad would be suffering an off year. After all, without Cross, last year’s NCAA champions have had to rely on a starting foil squad comprised entirely of a trio of freshman. As is the case with most sports, freshman fencers typically struggle with the adjustment to the life of a college athlete. Apparently Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky are not your typical freshman. Coach Peter Brand’s three newest recruits have thrived helping the Crimson to a 2nd place finish in the Ivy League...

Author: By Douglas A. Baerlein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshmen Excel in College Spotlight | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

Sarah M. Kinsella ’07, co-founder with her boyfriend of True Love Revolution, an abstinence-until-marriage group, is concerned by what she sees as sex’s position as “more of a recreational sport than as an expression of love between two people.” Kinsella views her crusade for abstinence as “at the most basic level, really a public health outreach...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Divisive Discourse? | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...muscle mass due to a thickening of their heart walls. While the mass of the rowers’ hearts did not increase as significantly, the chambers of their hearts increased in size. The Harvard researchers attributed the different forms of heart growth to the emphasis on endurance in the sport of crew as opposed to the short, but intense bursts of energy required in football. “There’s a lot of explosiveness with the drills that we do,” said Harvard runningback Cheng Ho ’10. “I think...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athletes’ Hearts Bulk Up | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...Arlington is fertile ground for the sport. The city supports a multifarious fitness culture that has more in common with the suburbs of California than the football-addicted small towns of South and West Texas. A hotbed of diversity—immigration from soccer-mad Latin America, East Asia, and Africa helped the city grow to become the nation’s 50th largest (and counting) by 2000—it never lacked the competition that would help develop Andre’ into a star on the club circuit...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Eyes Next Goal | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...It’s a real benefit,” Andre’ says, “when you get to play the sport you love and everyone else wants to play...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Eyes Next Goal | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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