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...warm thank you to all the scholar-athletes who took the time out of their busy training regimens to write those well thought-out responses to my last column. For those just tuning in, that column gently suggested that many who play sport at a high level are admitted to Harvard for slightly different reasons than the rest of the student body—and that the admissions committee is absolutely right to admit them...
...Sarcasm is often about saying one thing, meaning the opposite, but actually meaning something somewhere in between. Sarcasm can be about “sort of kidding.” For instance, I will readily admit that I approached my inquiry into “why jocks exist” with some acidity. I was under the impression that the Harvard presses, which are almost entirely devoid of athletes, were portraying athletes too reverently. Somewhere between my heavy sarcasm and my earnestness, there was the nutmeg of argument...
...real issue here cannot be addressed by individual professors and departments; rather, the problem is with those people in the admissions office who, contrary to all the best interests of this institution, dare to admit a better and better class every single year. In fact, it is likely the case the admissions office has failed to admit an entering group of frosh worse than the previous year’s class for many years now. This, of course, blatantly disregards the fact that such an audacious and unchecked policy of enrolling the country’s brightest students year after...
...admissions office ignores all the obvious signposts indicating the students they admit are going to cause grade inflation—something that Harvard’s rival institutions seem to be much more keenly aware of. Each year, the folks over at Byerly Hall blithely send out letters of acceptance to two, three and often four times as many Presidential Scholars, National Merit Scholars and USA Today All-USA High School Academic Team members as any other school. How in the world are we supposed to even stand a chance of keeping grades healthily deflated when a quarter of admitted...
...many people say that they’re not feminist either because of the negative connotations or because feminism has no place here anymore. Whether they want to admit it or not, women still confront inequality and cannot walk down the street without the fear or risk of being violated. The battles fought in the twentieth century may have been successful, but they’re not over. Both women and men alike need to continue to fight for feminism because gender inequity has not disappeared—except perhaps from our national consciousness...