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...amateur. You can win the gold medal for your country and the NCAA championship for your college and still be an amateur. But if you join your Olympic teammates on the Wheaties box, you instantly become a professional. That is why some 1998 U.S. women’s ice hockey Olympians were not in the Wheaties photo: appearing—even with no money changing hands—would have rendered them ineligible to compete again for Harvard...
...women’s teams have equal time on the practice fields and fencing and football receive proportionate funding, the fact remains that high profile male athletes fill a community niche that other student-athletes do not. Historically, men’s sports such as football, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse have occupied a more visible place on college campuses than other athletics. A school is more likely to receive wide acclaim for being national basketball champions than it would if its dance team were awarded the same honor. This tradition continues today. If we claim to want real equality...
...Ingber himself hasn’t had much time for comedy in the past three years due to his involvement with the a capella group the Din and Tonics and Hasty Pudding Theatricals.IMPROV-MENTSThe real hotbed of performance comedy at Harvard are its extracurricular improvisational comedy groups, On Thin Ice (OTI) and the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP).OTI—which specializes in comedy improv based around two-minute games à la TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”—will perform at the Demon ComedyFest. One of OTI?...
...team made this year—but seems to be mired in the middle of the national pack in many of the major sports.And finally, the school recruits some of the nation’s top athletes, but until they make an impact on the field, court, track, or ice, they seldom come up during breakfast-table discussions. Our feature today notwithstanding, they too rarely show up in the pages of our very own breakfast-table daily.Outside of the everyday world on this side of the river, coaches, players, and the athletic department as a whole are working constantly...
While Harvard lures the world’s brightest high school seniors this pre-frosh weekend with concerts, ice cream socials, and an ’80s dance, departments wooing the world’s top scholars have their own special tactics—flower bouquets, dinner invitations, and even the occasional valentine...