Word: giamatti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Yale will provide additional financial aid to those students who lose federal money because they did not register for the draft. University President A Bartlett Giamatti announced last month. The Yale Daily News reported...
...also differs from Giamatti in his low-key approach toward athletics. Although he is not as vocal as Giamatti, administrators and coaches say Bok actively participates in a wide variety of the issues. He works behind the scenes by style, explains athletic director John P. Reardon '60, "rather than making a lot of pontifical statements...
...coach Joe Bernal says that Harvard doesn't allow its teams to test themselves enough against competition outside the Ivy League. Both coaches ideas conflict with Harvard and Ivy ideals of protecting players from too much scheduling pressure and keeping a team's emphasis on winning the Ivy championship (Giamatti supported both of these ideals in his speech...
Overall, Bok has tried to keep athletics at Harvard in a proper perspective. Aware of all the possible pitfalls in a pre-professionalism-type of athletic atmosphere. Bok, like Giamatti, supports a healthy, though not too competitive athletic program in which students play mainly for the enjoyment of the sport. "I do certainly have recollections of not only the great joy of athletics," Bok says, adding "but also of the problems and tensions that can be posed if athletics demand too much of people...
...result of the disproportion is, in my opinion, that some students, and not a trivial number, spend far, far too much time, with the encouragement of the institutions, in athletic pursuits." --President Giamatti...