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Although no statistics are provided by Harvard of these athletes’ academic performance, The Game of Life, a book written by William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman, compares elite north eastern colleges and shows that varsity athletes perform worse academically once they have enrolled than the rest of the undergraduate population. While this observation may be explained, in part, by the amount of time that the recruits devote to athletics once in college, the underlying problem is that many recruited athletes are not as academically capable as other students...
Professionalism in college athletics only leads to increased self-segregation by the varsity athletes, as demonstrated in the study by Shulman and Bowen. Professionalism discourages athletes from participating in other activities, spending time on their studies and getting the well-rounded education for which Harvard is known. Professionalism diminishes the educational experience of those students who are academically capable, not only denying most of them the opportunity to play sports at an inter-collegiate level, but also depressing the intellectual level of sections, tutorials and lectures. But most importantly, professionalism denies a Harvard education to dozens of worthy candidates every...
Athletic recruiting by elite schools has recently come under scrutiny in the national media following a book co-authored by former Princeton president William G. Bowen, The Game of Life, which claimed that high school applicants classified as “athletic recruits” often enjoy a substantial advantage in admissions...
...missed. Athletes, unlike fine musicians or writers, simply cannot “add to the intellectual and cultural stew that makes college campuses exciting.” (To be honest, I doubt I was accepted for this particular reason, either.) Pointing to data collected by James Shulman and William Bowen, the Times dismissed any contributions athletes might make at a school: they self-segregate themselves, they don’t perform as well in classes and, apparently worst of all, their performance on the field doesn’t even impact alumni donations anymore. Thus, good riddance...
...priority. That changed two years later when Whisky, one of then Governor Chris Patten's Norfolk terriers, was poisoned (but survived). Police belatedly called Midgely in to help with a composite sketch of the suspect and later had him try to spot the man among passersby on Bowen Road...