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...years, Harvard students looking for some casual exercise have gazed longingly across the river. Surpressing visions of clean, spacious and uncrowded weightrooms and row upon row of beautiful, unused treadmills—located in exercise facilities meant specifically for athletes??these students climb the stairs of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) with a tinge of frustration. Waiting in line for treadmills isn’t too soothing either. And with each new, monolithic athletic building that appeared in Allston, the vast disparity between Harvard’s exercise facilities for athletes and those meant for everyone else...
...athletes?? job is to go out there and perform to the best of their abilities,” Galebach said. “We can’t worry about if we have enough guys on the team: only the coaching staff and luck control that factor...
...Public Health and co-author of Reclaiming the Game, a book that “unmasks” the problems plaguing intercollegiate athletics—spoke at the Gutman Conference Center. She touched upon many topics, but I’ll give you a quick rundown: High-profile athletes??those who participate in hockey, basketball and football—are less qualified for admission than normal applicants, they underachieve when they get here and they isolate themselves on campus...
...second half of the 1990s, disgruntled rejected applicants began to point fingers at competing constituencies they believed were unqualified—first minorities, and more recently legacies. It was only logical that the biggest group of students to benefit from a non-academic selection preference—athletes??have now come under fire...
According to Reclaiming the Game, recruited athletes??especially male athletes who play the “high profile” sports: football, basketball, and hockey—are not academically representative of their classes. They concentrate disproportionately in the social sciences, and their class ranks are, on average, disproportionately low. Though Bowen and Levin argue that the time commitment teams demand of their athletes should be further reduced, their statistics show that other groups with similar commitments—including non-recruited, “walk-on” athletes??do not under perform...