Around the Water Cooler
Around the Water Cooler: The Other Games
While everyone’s mind is on The Game, other sporting events are still going on. Shocking. The Ivy League football title ...
Around the Water Cooler: It's Good to Be From Philly
Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, meaning the end of fall sports. While we look ahead to the winter season, there are still some loose ends that need to be tied. The men’s soccer title will be decided this weekend, and we’ll have a pretty good idea of who will win the Ivy League football crown after Saturday’s games. And as we’ll show you in a little tour around the water cooler, it’s a good time to be a Quaker.
Around the Water Cooler: Mid-Fall Check Up
It’s been a busy week here in Cambridge and on other Ivy campuses. The Head of the Charles came and ...
Around the Water Cooler: Welcoming Back Old People You Don't Know
Welcoming back old friends and old people that you don’t know is a timeless event that everyone holds very dear ...
Around the Water Cooler: Smart Kids Go to Harvard and Horses Go to Brown
Ah, October. The leaves are falling, the air is becoming crisper, and the midterms are here. For all of you ...
Around the Water Cooler: Sophomore QBs Doin' It Big
As the news of Grammy-winning rapper Wyclef Jean accepting a job offer from the department of Africana Studies at Brown ...
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein We Choose Our Classes
Isn't shopping period fun? For many, it means minimal academic work, maximal social life, and hoping for the best when ...
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein We Return to Cambridge
With just three weeks left before classes begin, the pilgrimage back to Cambridge has begun. Preseason for varsity athletes begins next week, but this correspondent has already returned to Massachusetts after a summer abroad in South Africa. Having left vuvuzelas and rabid drunken soccer fans behind, it’s time to focus on the season ahead: and that means football.
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein We Fire Our Grills in Anticipation
It's August, and you know what that means: football season is only one month away. It’s time to start preparing your fantasy football cheat sheets, firing up the grill, and dusting off the old Harvard varsity sweater. The Crimson opens its season against Holy Cross on September 18 under the lights at Harvard Stadium. Sure, that’s 45 days away, but Around the Water Cooler, it's never too early to start discussing Ivy League football—especially when the other option is to talk about the Ivy League’s incoming track and field classes.
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein We All Win Gold Medals
American history concentrators will tell you that the Gold Rush happened in the late 1800s in California. Fans of Ivy League crew would give you a different answer: Brest, Belarus in 2010.
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein We All Want to be Jeremy Lin
Has hell frozen over? No, we're not talking about the fact that an Ivy League basketball player is about to sign with an NBA team.
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein the Lions Roar
In an effort to avoid being verbally accosted in a similar fashion, this edition of Around the Water Cooler has nothing but positive things to say about the Lions baseball club. We will also explore the strange culture of our northern comrades over at Dartmouth, as well as the all-important topic of Ivy League basketball.
Around the Water Cooler: Wherein the Ivy League Never Stops Ballin'
School has been out for over a month now, but the world of Ivy League athletics continues to go 'round—well, perhaps an exception can be made for Brown, where sports get even less respect than this Back Page correspondent's jump shot. Nevertheless, in our first exciting edition of Around the Water Cooler, we bring you news of some Ancient Eight ballers who refuse to hang up their Nikes, and a guy who can scamper around a track while he dodges puddles of water faster than most other guys.