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...have grumbled at his push for a post-season embargo on your team. Yet, after 14 years at the helm of Ivy League sports, Orleans announced last week that he will be stepping down in June of 2009. Orleans is a distinguished figure, and we can admirably reflect upon his successful tenure and its accomplishments. At the same time, however, we are excited at the opportunity for change that a new executive director can bring. Orleans took groundbreaking steps to improve college life and college athletics. His brainchild, the Title IX legislation mandating equal funding for women?...
Classicist John K. Schafer had no idea that being in the right place at the right time—and knowing his Ovid—would lead to an epic meeting with Matt Damon.Harvard’s Classics department is often called upon to perform translations, from salad dressing labels and Vatican documents to military mottoes and movie lines, as the University’s scholars of the ancient world show a surprising impact on our own.In Schafer’s case, a department administrator found him in the graduate student lounge and told him that the dialect coach...
...Quincy dining hall staff worker, said that no trays means not only less food, but also less work. Trayless Thursdays provided the dining hall staff with “a little break from these busy nights,” he said. But Charles said that trayless dining ultimately depends upon student preference. “If it’s easier for ya’ll, it’s easier for me,” he said. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
Whether Groh's family could prevail if they took the case to civil court depends a lot upon what law applies - Florida law or federal admiralty law. According to Margulies, admiralty law would apply if the vessel transported passengers between a port in the United States and a foreign country. The federal law would allow a negligence claim; Florida law would bar such a claim. Florida holds that waivers signed by a person participating in high-risk activity such as skydiving or shark watching are valid because they are knowingly engaging in risky activity, Margulies says...
...Florida law prevails, all recourse may not be lost for Groh's family. Lidsky explains that a lot depends upon the wording of the waiver. Sometimes a court will void the contract as a matter of public policy because the contract fails to spell out the risk, she says...