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Ohiri played for the Nigerian Olympic soccer team at the 1960 games in Rome, where he scored two goals during the qualifying rounds. He had also qualified for the Olympics in the triple jump—which he turned down to focus on soccer—but would go on to be one of the most decorated track and field athletes in Harvard history, holding the triple jump record for four decades. “He was a phenomenon,” Malin said...
...actually encourage this focus. I’m proud of my classmates’ service in charity—if not in politics. But a single-minded focus on the big things harms the little things, which are more important than we realize. You see the discrepancies everywhere: the guy who donates his books to charity but leaves his clothes at school for his roommates to put in summer storage; the girl who cares for disadvantaged kids in the afternoon but cusses out students who disturb her studying at night...
...little disappointing that we were not able to make the team race national championship regatta, but if we had to choose between the fleet- and team-racing contests, we would always choose the fleet-racing contest. It is a bigger affair and one which we focus on throughout the season...
Even in The Crimson, the newspaper for which I write, we oftentimes see more focus put on men’s sports than women’s. I doubt this is ever on purpose. Simply put, the average person will think of men playing sports before women. In fact, at our beat draft two years ago (the time when each sportswriter can pick a sport they want to follow for the entire year), softball was the last sport picked, while baseball was secured in the first round...
...also presided over the expansion of the Business School’s focus on entrepreneurship and the Global Initiative—a push to increase the international exposure of the Business School, including the implementation of the overseas Immersion Experience Program for students and the opening of the Harvard Shanghai Center...