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...emergent sport of chess-boxing, competitors alternate between 3-min. rounds of boxing and 4-min. rounds of speed chess, with 1-min. breaks in between to take the gloves off, etc. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate or referee decision. Ada Calhoun spoke via translator with the 2008 World Champion Chessboxer, Russian math student Nikolaj Sazhin, 19, who won the light-heavyweight division in Berlin on July 5 after seizing his punch-drunk opponent's queen in the fifth round of chess...
...their institutions benefited from slavery. In 2001, Yale graduate students published a lengthy report that examined the extent to which the school benefitted financially from slavery and perpetuated pro-slavery ideology. A number of Yale’s residential colleges, for example, were named after slave owners, most notably Calhoun College, which is named for John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and ardent defender of Southern rights.And that year, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons—the first black president of an Ivy League university—commissioned a panel of students, faculty, and administrators to investigate Brown?...
...understand exactly how a large-scale renovation would affect the campus, we can look to our rival: Yale. After doing a partial renovation of Calhoun College, one of its residential colleges, in the summer of 1989, Yale realized that renovating was much more complicated than expected. And so, it was back to the drawing board for the community college. The resulting 15-month renovations of each residential college was the solutions, and Yale is now on its ninth project, the reconstruction of Jonathan Edwards College...
...Despite the disadvantages, most at Yale are excited by the prospect of a newly revamped home. “Students recognize that their college needs to be renovated,” says Jonathan Holloway, master of Yale’s Calhoun. “They’re very excited, but they wish it wouldn’t happen on their watch. No one’s really opposed...
...since Connecticut criminalized the possession of alcohol on private property by those under 21. Yale doubled its security detail from the 2005 Game and increased the number of on-site toilets tenfold, according to a widely forwarded e-mail sent by Yale sophomore Kyle Briscoe, a member of the Calhoun College Council. In addition, Yale limited the music to one official DJ, located in the Yale tailgate area. Ryan M. Travia, Harvard’s director of alcohol and other drug services, wrote in an e-mail that he had not received notice of any alcohol-related hospital admittances. Students...