A headline in today's Daily Dartmouth: "Varsity House nears completion." That's a bit of a hyperbole given the recent photos of the interior of the Floren Varsity House, but you get the idea. From the story:
"According to project manager Mary Bourque of the Office of Planning, Design and Construction, no major setbacks have slowed Floren's construction, and the weather has cooperated unexpectedly well."Down at Harvard, meanwhile, the bubble on the football stadium was inflated yesterday beginning at 5 in the morning. It took 2 1/2 hours to blow the big balloon up to its full dimensions of 140 yards long by 70 yards wide and 60 feet high. Lighting is yet to be installed. The bubble is slated to stay up until the middle of March. It is expected to be in place from just after Thanksgiving until March starting next year. Click here for photos.
Fully aware that the fine burghers of Hanover would likely not be enthralled with the prospect of a bubble on Memorial Field during the winter, Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens has been pushing for one of the inflatables on Chase Field. It would require the installation of another artificial surface field.
Today's local paper has a list of early decision recruits for Dartmouth sports, including football (no new names to Green Alert readers). The paper's web site posts just one story per section (always a frustration when I wrote for it) and the recruit story wasn't today's choice. (Instead it was a story about Lebanon High basketball, led by former Dartmouth coach Dave Faucher's youngest son, Scott.) Anyway, I'll give you the Cliff Notes version of the mini-capsules compiled on each of the football recruits tomorrow.
On the subject of early admissions, these numbers have probably appeared elsewhere, but I haven't seen them. A story in today's Cornell Sun notes the early decision acceptance rate at Ivy League schools this year (sans Brown and Columbia):
- Yale 19.7 percent
- Harvard 21.5 percent
- Princeton 26 percent
- Pennsylvania 29 percent
- Dartmouth 30 percent
- Cornell 36.6
The Yale sports information site has a story about Yalies in the NFL. From the story: "Chris Hetherington '96, Dick Jauron '73, Eric Johnson '01, Nate Lawrie '04, Mike McCaskey '65 and Bob Wallace '78 all played for the Bulldogs and are now employed by NFL teams." The story includes this quote from quarterback Jeff Mroz, who just signed with the Philadelphia Eagles:
"They (the Eagles) have a great organization and have been very successful recently. I'm excited to start the off-season program with the Eagles," said Mroz. "In just the short time I've been in the NFL, I have learned so much about the game from some of the great coaches and players in Dallas as well as some of the other teams I've worked out with, which will definitely help elevate my level of play."Temperatures in the Upper Valley are supposed to hit 10 below zero tomorrow night. (It will be significantly colder up here on the mountain.) With that in mind, I was heartened to stumble across a story about the college baseball season opening up this week. (No, not here in Hanover.) I'll be eager to see how the University of Hawaii at Hilo Vulcans do in their four-game home series against Oregon State beginning tomorrow.
(And in case you are wondering, the local outdoor spring sports season is set to tip off with a Feb. 17 men's lacrosse scrimmage against UMass on Scully-Fahey Field. The first regular-season contest is a Feb. 24 women's lacrosse game against Syracuse. Brrr.)
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