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Today's graduating class of seniors has won five national team championships and lost only three matches in four years. Holleran and Hope Nichols will graduate today having participate on a team that is 30-1 in four years of competition. Bernheimer and Masland were on a team that lost only two matches in four years--including last year's loss to Princeton, which snapped the team's 72-match winning streak...
Chuck was never really cut out to be a professional hockey player. The day of his first game, when he was five years old and living in Atlanta, his mother sent him off to the rink wearing a football helmet. Cliff was out of town, and she didn't know any better. As Chuck himself jokes, "It was all downhill from there...
That same insider status has some-times made Springer vulnerable to criticism from within the Jewish community. Last year, he wrote a letter to The Crimson, claiming that he would not automatically vote no on Question Five, a local referendum that--if passed by the citizens of Cambridge--would call on Congress to support the establishment of a Palestinian state and end military aid to the occupation...
...fact, last year, another Hill member found herself in exactly that position--she stood across the street from Springier outside of polling sites, holding opposing signs for Question Five. Ellen L. Chuan '90 recalls, "We stood on the same corner, me holding a 'no' sign and him holding a 'yes,' and we'd debate each other. It was ironic top me that there was another Jewish person standing opposite me. It's all the more surprising because his mother is from Israel." She adds, "But he's definitely very committed to Diadems...
...began Harvard after a year off working and living on a kibbutz. At the start of college, he maintained his "uncritical support", but soon he began to question his own assumptions. The spring of his sophomore year he organized a celebration for Israel's 40th anniversary. "It was five months after the intifada started, and I had to general feeling of malaise. But I still felt that it was important to affirm and celebrate Israel...