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...FRESHMAN HOUSING LOTTERY'S COMPUTER PROGRAM...
...gets worse. The geniuses at the undergraduate housing office have a do-it-yourself philosophy regarding these matters. One individual in each blocking group is required to locate a mysterious room hidden in the depths of the Science Center and navigate the HTML and Java of an original computer program designed to compile the database of blocking groups for the office. No computer specialist patrols the room of beeping machines while anxious first-years painstakingly enter loads of information about their blockmates (some of whom are only recent acquaintances) into the program. Such precious info should not be placed...
Happily, the entire program has enjoyed success, as the second varsity, led by juniors Aric Christal, Don Casey, and Scott McCray, has also won its three races...
Actually, in the past decade, the HVL. program has followed a striking even-odd year pattern of results, winning in the odd years and falling short in the even years. As far back as 1993, the varsity boat won the national championship. Yet, in 1994, with six returning seniors who were all national champions from the year before, the crew was unable to pull everything together, coming up short in both end-of-the-season races...
Weiss and McCormack, as well as Elzinga, were both novices when they came to Harvard, and worked their way into the varsity ranks. Sophomore McCormack made the jump from the second freshman boat last year to the first varsity squad. This is especially significant given that the HVL program carries a third varsity and a second varsity boat, in which there are 16 other accomplished rowers...