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Evan J. Zepfel

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Harvard MLB Round-Up

As pitchers and catchers begin reporting to spring training for another baseball season, a former Harvard player will be among ...


Athlete Defends College Sports

Newsweek political commentator Ben Adler wrote an article on Sept. 22, “The Case against College Athletic Recruiting,” that criticizes American colleges for wasting time, money, and admissions slots on athletes. But what Adler doesn’t realize is that recruiting and college athletics as a whole are so much more than just pure economics.


Baseball’s Ivy Title Hopes Dashed with Losses in Hanover

The Harvard baseball team travelled to Dartmouth yesterday, needing a sweep of the two-game doubleheader to capture its first Rolfe Division title since 2006. Instead, it was the Big Green that got to bring out the brooms.


Students Create a Wigwam in Yard

In honor of the 360th anniversary of the Harvard Charter of 1650, the Native Americans at Harvard College celebrated the completion of an Indian hut at a ceremony in Harvard Yard yesterday.


Strong Efforts Ensure Sweep

Just a day after surrendering 17 runs to Brown, the Harvard pitching staff stepped up its game and allowed only two in a rescheduled doubleheader Monday at O’Donnell Field.


Statistics Say You’re Stressed Out

The most stressful part about Harvard is getting in, right? Wrong. On its list of the 50 Most Stressful Colleges, The Daily Beast—an online news site—ranked Harvard fifth, behind Stanford, Columbia, MIT, and Penn. The schools were ranked based on a hodgepodge of disparate categories: cost, competitiveness, acceptance rate, crime on campus, and the ranking of their engineering programs.