Word: weekends
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Granted, much of our behavior this weekend will be well-intentioned. Our parents have traveled great distances to be here, and naturally, we want to show them a good time. But this isn't the only occasion on which this campus shifts into hard-sell mode, nor will this weekend bear witness to the grossest distortions. The worst outbreak of irrational exuberance occurs annually on Pre-Frosh Weekend, when we all collectively conspire to convince unsuspecting high schoolers that the Yard is a warm, festive place. There is just something about the presence of outsiders that inspires even Harvard...
Unfortunately, the rosy portrait that we and the University pain has its price--especially, as is the case this weekend when the targets of the con are parents. We miss an extraordinary opportunity to exert pressure for change. Through the eyes of an administrator, angry students are one thing, angry parents another. Imagine if hundreds of furious mothers descended on Dean Knowels' office demanding core reform. What might happen if fathers started knocking on President Rudenstine's door wondering why all the junior faculty were leaving...
...while the team has certainly established itself as a threat in the collegiate circuit, the challenge is not over. The grapplers face their most important battle this weekend, as they travel to West Point for the EIWA tournament in hopes of earning a berth to Nationals, held later this month...
...pounds, sophomore Matt Picsic, who rounded out an outstanding freshman campaign by finishing third at EIWAs last season, goes into the weekend ranked fifth. He looks to avenge his earlier loss to Livio DiRubbo of Brown, as well as continue his victorious ways against Nate Rupp of Cornell and Nick Fokas of Columbia...
Rounding out the lineup for the Crimson are three others who have been an integral part of the team this season and whose threat at the tournament this weekend is not to be underestimated. Sophomore Kevin El-Hayek will wrestle at his first Easterns in the 125-pound weight class...