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...marketplace rejects [Bowen and Shulman’s] educational vision,” Scott writes. “Princeton would fail to attract many students it wants if its athletic program deteriorated...Successful athletics programs can attract good students who do not play sports...
While Harvard authorities doubt the applicability of Bowen and Shulman’s negative conclusions, Harvard athletes are quick to concur with Light’s assessment...
Ultimately, though, it will be Summers and the other Ivy presidents who will decide the matter—a fact that is not lost on Bowen and Shulman, who urge university presidents to halt the increased professionalization of collegiate athletics...
...athletic culture” that James Bowen and William Shulman deride in the recently published book The Game of Life is a priceless asset that makes Harvard the nation’s best university. They argue that because college athletics have become commercialized, student-athletes nowadays spoil their education by focusing on athletic success, to the detriment of their education and that of their peers...
...with all due respect to Bowen, Shulman and Josefowitz, the relationships I have enjoyed in college with student-athletes have proven to me that they are not the ones responsible for degrading the “Harvard experience.” Rather, it is those selfish individuals among us who have never played sports, who do not understand the meaning of putting the team before the self, who barge through life prioritizing their individual agendas over everyone else’s, who make it difficult for the rest of us to play nice with others when we step into...