Word: arene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runs in two directions. As reporters, we were trying to reflect a trend that, by reflecting, we helped to perpetuate. Stimulating and extensive crimson coverage is probably not enough to propel your average Harvard undergraduate down to Blodgett Pool to view a women's water polo contest. But why aren't spectators there already? What factors determine the popularity of various sports...
Some people say that the quality of play differential between men's and women's sports is enough to keep them away from the latter. Women's sports move slower, they argue, and the athletes aren't as strong...
...this inside stuff is little more than the predictable sturm und drang of corporate politicking. Couldn't the conflict between yesterday people and today people, for example, be explained less ominously as the normal tendency of new management to favor its own people over the previous regime's? Aren't clashes like the one between Rather and Joyce common to any large organization employing strong-willed creative people? And if these people were not on TV, would anybody -- anybody outside of CBS, that is -- really care...
...Most of the stunts we do aren't dangerous," says Wrchota. "They've been practiced, and we don't do them unless we are good at them. If you know what you're doing and people are serious about the routines, then its safe...
...problem is that we are in the business of intercollegiate athletic teams, and they clearly aren't that," says Malekoff. He adds that while "their support is clearly appreciated...the department can't be all things to all people...