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...students who voted in the referendum this week, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of a UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier. Meanwhile, 549 students voted against the proposal, Petersen said...
...idea that would send the three-time Olympian packing.Already in its sixth season, “The Apprentice” brings together 18 business-minded contestants from a range of backgrounds to duke it out for a year-long $250,000 apprenticeship under millionaire Donald Trump.During the 2006 Winter Olympics, NBC announced that Trump would spice up the sixth season of the show by adding an Olympian to the cast. A viewer’s poll was assembled and Ruggiero, who compiled a 109-13-5 record and an NCAA title while playing for the Crimson to go with...
...tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure in an unpredictable environment, it’s comforting to know that in the frigid months of winter there will always be football on the weekend and in the impossibly fast-paced spring semester I can always count on finding a baseball game to lose myself in for a few hours.On a broader scale, sports are a unifying force that can provide common ground for people from completely...
...hope to fully integrate its participants on a social level. Woodbridge has answered this need through a staggering gamut of social events, including its monthly cultural food party “Baraza” (Swahilli for “open house”), a speaker series, a winter formal, and the Society’s trademark party, “Fiesta Mondiale,” each spring. “My sort of leadership perception was that it should be really social,” outgoing Woodbridge President Karolis Balciunas ’08 says. “[Woodbridge...
...school year 13 days earlier in September and ending the fall exam period on Dec. 22. The proposed calendar also preserves reading period and ends the academic year earlier in May, bringing Harvard in line with peer universities. The highlight of the plan is an extended winter break that lasts until Jan. 19—thus eliminating the stress of looming papers and exams during vacation. These changes would also, according to the UC’s research, have such diverse yet salutary effects as helping ameliorate mental health concerns on campus, decreasing the University’s energy consumption...