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Though I disagree with much of the rhetoric delivered by Yale President A. Barlet Giamatti, who recently called for the Ivy League to downgrade its recruiting efforts and perhaps abolish playoff competition, I sympathize with the spirit of his remarks. He urges a realistic recognition of what the Ivy League is about, and that is --most of all-scholarly enterprise...
...Giamatti, I think, is rightly disturbed by the escalation of competitiveness at his own school and at many other Ivy schools in recent years. The surge is invidious; and it fosters such inflammatory accusations as those made about Yale accepting football players with a blatant disregard for their academic records, or Penn doing the same for its basketball dynasty, or Princeton prostituting itself to admit superb women athletes, or Harvard pressuring professors to show some leniency for athletes who perhaps aren't spending all that much time in Lamont or Widener...
...Bartlet Giamatti is right in calling for the Ivy League to work on this situation together. If we are indeed a brotherhood of schools and if our teams are to continue to compete primarily with each other, then we should clarify our collective aims an priorities...
...Harvard is to fight "victory inflation," it will need someone, or a group of someones, to confront the issues. I hope they have cut deep--stinging members of the Ivy League community. I know I bristled when I first heard them--my impulse was to berate Giamatti, to endorse the "I love you, coach; I'd beat my mother for you, coach" attitude which can pervade athletics. That attitude just does not work; I suspect it's not very useful anywhere, but especially not in the Ivies or at Harvard...
Yale admitted fewer athletic recruits this year than last, and coaches said they were worried that some athletes might be scared away from Yale by Giamatti's speech...