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Harvard is still not a favorite, though. After a loss to UConn last Tuesday and a stiff test looming versus Dartmouth, Harvard was slotted No. 6 by the USCHO.com voters in the most recent national poll...
...Saturday, the Crimson completed its most grueling stretch of the season so far, five games in nine days against a quartet of tough non-conference opponents. Two games against three-time national champ Minnesota-Duluth, a stiff midweek test against first-place UConn, and then home clashes versus the Wildcats and Providence this weekend all featured the kind of fast-paced, high-impact action that now prevails among the top teams in women’s hockey...
...from the men’s foil squad, which was defeated, 5-4, accounting for Harvard’s sole loss of the meet. Brand has high hopes for the men’s team, as he expects it to repeat as Ivy League champion this season, despite the stiff competition from an improved Columbia team. “We are essentially on the same track we were on last year,” he said. The coach is somewhat less convinced about the future of the women’s team. With junior foil fencer Emily Cross taking time...
...Solovay, an adjunct faculty member at the New College of California School of Law who authored “Tipping the Scales of Justice,” discusses weight discrimination in her courses. Fat studies proponents, who challenge the accepted message that obesity is both avoidable and unhealthy, face stiff opposition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that obesity, which afflicts 30 percent of American adults, increases the risk of diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Opponents say that fat studies is a way of masking that epidemic by making it a part of social discourse...
After an almost unprecedented shutout in the stiff competition for the 32 Rhodes scholarships awarded to Americans last year, Harvard students rebounded with a vengeance, snagging over a fifth of the scholarships awarded for 2007. As prestigious as the scholarships are, however, they do not boast an innocent history. When Cecil J. Rhodes died in 1902, he left behind the endowment that funds his namesake scholarships to this day and a legacy of exploitation in Southern Africa, where he made a fortune mining diamonds. A champion of British colonialism, Rhodes supported military expansions of British influence in Africa, earning...