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...hardly know where to begin in criticizing your recent news analysis of the controversy over the athletic directorship and, specifically, the resignation of Robert Peck. As I was one of the undergraduate signers of the letter endorsing Jack Reardon and Baaron Pittenger, and as that was the most arrogant and offensive part of the article in my view, I shall begin there. The author was kind enough to first point out why we thought we wrote the letter, i.e., to prevent the appointment of "an outsider who would de-emphasize the intercollegiate athletic program." Fair enough. He then, however...
Neither of the two administrators--Baaron B. Pittenger, associate athletic director, and John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions and coordinator of the program for athletic facilities--has the "anti-big time" reputation of Peck, who made waves last month by turning in a rival college's hockey coach for alleged recruiting violations...
...Because if the search committee believed that things as they now stand were as they should be, there wouldn't have been a search at all. Either Baaron Pittenger or John Reardon would have already been named to succeed Mr. Watson, and 60 Boylston St. wouldn't be like the high school senior about to open his college acceptance/rejection letters. Nervous, on edge, scared that the future might not be as pleasant as the past...
Jeffrey W. Hill '77, captain of the men's varsity basketball team, said yesterday 40 athletes, including the captains of most of the College's major sports teams, endorse both Baaron B. Pittinger Jr., associate director of athletics, and John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions and coordinator of the program for athletic facilities...
Responding to reports that Harvard might name a member of the Williams College faculty to the post, the athletes said they favor either Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of athletics, or John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions and coordinator of the program for athletic facilities...