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...tension mounted, extra minutes becoming extra hours, regulation yielding to overtime upon overtime. Deadlines were missed, nails were bitten, and over 100 shots were rifled at the net. And still two zeroes remained on the Kohl Center scoreboard: one beneath Harvard, a 23-win team making its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, and the other below host Wisconsin, the heavily favored top seed and defending national champion, with only one loss on its record to date. Before 5,125 fans, one of the biggest crowds in college women’s hockey history, the Crimson and the Badgers battled into...
...first story I wrote for the Crimson was God-awful, as I was told several times upon publication...
...Dark blue was for work, for dressing up like an adult and going into the office. Dark blue helped keep me in J.Crew clothing and reminded me of what I have to look forward to upon graduation. Dark blue also helped put things in perspective. My coworkers, their families, and their jobs reminded me that doing poorly on my midterm would probably mean very little to me in the long...
...arguing that the current calendar is harmful to students’ mental health. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term, instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...
...How’s Harvard?” but instead interested in “How are you?” As a class of college graduates, my classmates and I must now answer that question for ourselves, and in doing so I believe we should all draw upon the experience we had here to craft a definition of “doing well” that truly resonates with...