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...League’s new policy requiring seven weeks of “dead time” for all varsity athletes aims to encourage athletes to get involved in other extracurricular activities besides sports. With seven weeks off, so the reasoning goes, athletes will have time to pursue other interests and become more broadly involved in their school community. The reasoning is sound, just as the opposition of many vocal athletes on campus is not surprising. The outcry over this new policy sheds important light on the nature of competitive athletics at Harvard, and shows how athletics has negative effects...
...heavily involved with Hillel and says he “consciously tries to cultivate friendships with people in other religious groups.” Although Harpaul is a Math and Philosophy concentrator who has “taken more literature classes than anything else,” his major extracurricular has been the Society of Physics Students. “I know a lot of the quieter people who are into science on campus,” notes Harpaul, who has been told that he represents “a quiet majority of Harvard students who maybe didn?...
There is a lot to say about the politics and prejudices of Harvard and ROTC. Most of it has already been said. But curiosity lingers—what is life actually like for people who make an extracurricular commitment not for their own or their résumé’s sake, but for national defense. Sure, they get money to pay for school. But in addition to four years of ROTC coursework, they also commit to at least four years after school of military training and service. University President Lawrence H. Summers likes ROTC; a pro-military...
...says Taylor. Still, some ROTC cadets feel separated from their college. “There are definitely times when I feel like I do identify more with even MIT and ROTC than the actual Harvard experience,” Persons says. For others, ROTC is more of a large extracurricular commitment. Bartch calls her Air Force training her “varsity sport.” But more so than athletes, the ROTC commitment is very much a public one. “I’m not going to go up to every...
Still, ROTC is about more than getting a good job eventually or paying for school, and a military commitment is certainly not just another extracurricular. The cadets and midshipmen don’t get too sentimental about it, though. King comes the closest. Because he joined ROTC in his sophomore year, he spent five weeks last summer at a “lateral entry camp” where he caught up on the training he had missed. He says the drill sergeants at Fort Knox, where he attended this camp, talked a lot about how to talk about the army...