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...State and other scholarship programs on the way to the NCAA Championship, the fourth in the history of the Harvard Athletic Program and the Crimson’s first national team fencing title of any kind in 72 years.In Houston, as in New York, Harvard’s rambunctious athletes??part fencers, part fans—rallied around a signature catch phrase while they dismantled their opponents.“Nothing can stop the bus,” Brand says.***The inevitability of such a proposition would have been laughable four years ago, long before the Crimson...
...professionalization” as problems of higher education today. These dangers motivate the proposals now being implemented: delayed concentration choice, which makes concentration programs less deep; incentives for secondary fields; and discouragement of honors programs. Money is dirty: Students preparing for law, medicine, or business—including many athletes??are treated as outside the liberal arts tradition. Yet the new curricular proposals sustain that great intellectual tradition in name only. The gentleman amateur, dilettantish and unmoved by the financial exigencies of real life, is the ideal student of Harvard’s new curriculum...
Student athletes have unique concerns. For instance, dining hall hours and shuttle schedules impact athletes?? practice-filled schedules dramatically. Academic policies disproportionately affect athletes, as they miss class more frequently than most students to play. From early morning practices to the biggest games of the year, student-athletes experience Harvard in a different scope, and College administrators would be well served to better inform their decisions relating to every aspect of student life...
...specific interests of student-athletes are overlooked far too often. The crucial issue is that there exists little to no dialogue between the College administration and undergraduate athletes. This problem is exacerbated by athletes?? detachment from the traditional means of student advocacy. Meetings of preexisting student advocacy organizations frequently conflict with athletic commitments or time that athletes must use to catch up on academic work. Also, these organizations are charged with dealing with the general concerns of the entire student population, letting athlete-specific concerns fall through the cracks...
...fleeting entertainment is hardly worth sacrificing student athletes?? futures. My biggest hope is that next year, when I am fanatically watching the tournament, I will hear coaches and pundits earnestly discussing the low graduation rates and possible solutions. It is time they finally took the first step...