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Early Thursday morning, deep in the bowels of Harvard University Science Center’s abandoned no-man’s land, something stirred. Students were alarmed and upset when they arrived at the building for their Thursday morning classes to find it roped off with security tape and evacuated. Dean Michael D. Smith’s announcement reassured students that while the closure was due to a chemical spill, classes would be able to resume as usual later that afternoon. The Science Center has long been a central hub for students and faculty alike. A testament to man?...
...championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...
...time on the SAT’s when you got six B’s in a row. Every now and then, the probabilities align the right way, and produce something unusually ordered. Often, we find the opposite remarkable in sports—we are astounded by the miraculous upset, when David defeats Goliath. This time, though, we can appreciate the opposite: Goliath, beating David, over and over again, in a stunning and rare display of the triumph of rational order. Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe ’10, a Crimson Associate Editorial Chair, is a social studies concentrator...
...upset-filled month, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team produced a bid of its own. The team took an early 2-0 lead, but No. 2 Duke (9-1) proved why it’s one of the top teams in the country, scoring 10 unanswered goals to beat the Crimson (4-3), 10-3, in Durham, N.C. last Tuesday. Down 2-1 in a man up situation with 5:16 to go in the second period, Blue Devil and 2007 national player of the year Matt Danowski found the back of the net on an assist from...
...weeks ago, the admissions office told 1,308 unlucky transfer applicants via e-mail that none of them would be accepted for the next two years. While the College has told the applicants that it will refund the $60 application fee, many applicants are still upset with the decision...