ROWING WILD

Sophomore Nigel Munoz, a member of men’s heavyweight crew, has found athletic success in more than just rowing. The London native took a gap year before entering Harvard to bike around the world, and followed that up with an excellent performance in an Ironman triathalon.

Harvard Lands Top Tight End Recruit, Topping Stanford

Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. school on Oct. 16 and verbally declared his allegiance to the Crimson football ranks.

King of the Nikhil

Senior goaltender Nikhil Balaraman has taken on the legacy of former goalie and teammate Jay Connolly ’09. According to Balaraman’s teammates and coach, he has filled the space more than adequetely.

“Proof,” which runs in the Loeb Ex until tomorrow, deals with the descent towards insanity of Catherine, the daughter of a brilliant mathematician.

Proving the Links of Math and Art

New play in Loeb Ex examines nature of math and our emotional instability

SPOTLIGHT: Helen Pickett

Dancer, actress, and choreographer—Helen Pickett is a sensation in the world of ballet. For over a decade, she held the ...

A Modern Take on Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ Goes on at the Square

A troupe of performers commit to revitalizing the Bard’s work

“The Flies,” opening tonight on the Loeb Mainstage, is an update of Jean Paul Sartre’s allegory of Nazi-occupied France, which itself was a retelling of the Greek myth of Orestes, a hero who chose to challenge the gods.

“Flies” is West Side Sartre

Although the story of “The Flies,” opening tonight on the Loeb Mainstage, originated 2,500 years ago, its ancient philosophy remains ...

Art Street Incorporated, the brainchild of Robert C. Guillemin, seeks to create art literally on the streets of Boston. In doing so, the group hopes to make art more accessible and democratic.

Taking Artwork into the Streets

One night in late April 1990, Robert C. Guillemin, at the request of Senator John F. Kerry, drove a 5,000-gallon ...

Re-Act

Presenting visual media from the AIDS activist movement, “ACT UP New York” hopes to spark dialogue on campus

Spirited Goalie Carries on Legacy

Take a look at the Harvard men’s water polo team’s lineup and something clearly stands out–other than a few players from Eastern Europe or New England, the Crimson’s roster is remarkably dominated by Californians. “There’s something about the team, the fact that most of us have the shared experience of not being from east coast places,” goalie Nikhil Balaraman said. “We can commiserate in the snow and all that terrible stuff that none of us had seen before.” Balaraman is a senior originally from the San Diego area, who despite the drastic change in weather, has established himself as an important part of the water polo team here at Harvard.

OWUSU GOOD

Last week against Cornell, Owusu stood out when he picked off two passes in the first half. The freshman comes from a family of top-notch athletes. His father Francis represented Ghana in the 1976 Olympics.

Freshman Owusu Continues Family Tradition

Football is one of those sports where talent often runs in the family. Archie, Peyton, and Eli Manning, Howie and Chris Long, Kellen and Kellen Winslow—the list of NFL families is lengthy. Harvard football is no exception to this trend, as the Crimson can say it has a player whose family heirloom is a football. Hailing from Oxnard, California, freshman defensive back Brian Owusu is the second oldest in a family of five standout athletes.

Bringing the High Seas Home

Nearly 20 years ago, the trimaran Great American capsized off the Cape of Good Hope. No one knew that 20 years after his rescue, the sole skipper of the Great American would not only succeed on an equally extensive and fatiguing expedition, but would set two milestones along the way. In March 2009, Harvard alum Rich Wilson ’78, MBA ’82 became the first American and the oldest person to ever complete the Vendee Globe sailing race, a four-month expedition in which sailors travel around the world, starting and finishing in France.

Senior Shines in Newfound Passion

When Lance Armstrong won his record-breaking seventh Tour de France championship in 2005, Chris Hong was playing the violin, not giving a moment’s thought to cycling. Now, four years later in Hong’s senior year at Harvard, his stringed instruments have been pushed to the wayside for handlebars and a saddle, and cycling has become his new, and favorite, tune.

Guardian of Graves Saves Burial Ground

The singing man dressed in a colorful parka who is often on his knees scrubbing graves in Cambridge’s Old Burying ...

Heeding the Call of the NFL

Giving up on a dream is never an easy thing to do. Just ask Andrew Berry ’09, Harvard’s three-time All-Ivy cornerback and 2008 preseason All-American. A star on and off the field, Berry also ranked among his graduating class’ top five percent in GPA and was Director of the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program during his time at Harvard. Though he dreamed of playing professional football, Berry was not selected by a pro team in the highly-competitive NFL draft last April. He received a tryout offer from the Washington Redskins, but almost immediately after he arrived at their minicamp, he was sent home with a herniated disk in his back. Berry knew then that his dream of playing pro ball was over.

Talent Runs in the Family

Cara Sprague and Claire Richardson are junior runners for Harvard, but what these teammates have in common—besides the track—is that they both have a younger brother on the team.

Scoped! Jordan B. Weitzen ’08

House : Eliot Concentration : Economics Hometown : Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which

Hef’s Got Nothin’ on Harvard’s Hottest Heir

It was about 4 a.m. in Zagreb, Croatia when a tremendous noise woke Miran Pavic ’09 from his sleep. “The