Word: club
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...What club sports offer the Harvard community is unique. Each team is student-run, from registering the team to recruiting members, finding coaches, and securing a budget. Club sports allow students to pursue interests in martial arts, boxing, and other sports that are either unavailable at a varsity level or do not require the immense time commitment of a varsity sport...
...order to survive, though, club sports have had to resort to drastic fundraising techniques to help pay their way through national tournaments and even standard intercollegiate play. Danielle J. Alexander ’09, a member of the women’s rugby team, said, “You have to get really creative sometimes and you feel really unsupported by the rest of the college community.” The women’s rugby team had to test this “creativity” last year by going door-to-door and asking students for their laundry...
...These financial problems have far-reaching effects. Many teams that Harvard club sports compete against are recognized at the varsity level by other schools, which is the situation that the women’s equestrian club faces with many of its opponents, including three in the Ivy League. Club teams at Harvard are at a massive disadvantage when competing nationally against these varsity teams by having to make do with scant resources; some teams have even had to forfeit their spots in national competitions because of financial constraints...
...more deleterious effect of these financial woes is the high barrier of entry they create for low-income students. To make up the difference between the tiny allocation from the Department of Athletics and the considerable costs of a club sport, most sports require members to pay sizable fees. For students on significant financial aid, $150 in club sport dues can be more than enough to keep students from participating. And for club sports like Men’s Ultimate Frisbee, where A-team members are expected to pay nearly $1,000 in travel costs, the barriers to low-income...
...strongly believe that Harvard College, the Department of Athletics, and the Financial Aid Office should offer funding to students on significant financial aid so as to allow them to participate fully in club sports. Other institutions have already taken a lead on this effort, with Stanford adopting a similar system that gives low-income students money to pay for equipment and membership dues. Given the commitment Harvard has already made to low-income students, with those whose families have incomes less than $60,000 responsible for no parental contribution, it seems illogical to perpetuate a system that keeps them from...