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...more serious problem is that the close ties of most judges to the national skating federations that name them to competitions lead some to act like operatives for their home-team skaters. At several competitions leading up to the '98 Winter Games in Nagano, Jean Senft, a Canadian Olympic judge, was disturbed to have been privy to conversations in which judges agreed in advance on the outcomes. When she complained to skating officials, they demanded proof. So Senft brought a tape recorder with her to the Nagano games. On the day of the pairs competitions, she surreptitiously taped a phone...
...Jean Senft, a current Olympic and world figure skating judge, is no stranger to the sport's controversial side. While judging at the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...
...Jean Senft: It isn't just one day of prep work - it's a lifetime of preparation, keeping up with new skating moves, updating our own skills. Figure skating is at once sport and art, and we try to keep ourselves educated in the realms of art, ballet and music. Judges have to be strong, not just mentally, but also physically. At the Olympic level, we're all highly skilled skaters ourselves...
...first blush, the pieces included in the exhibit—by photographers Carlin E. Wing ’02, Jean J. Ryoo ’02 and Arwen K. O’Reilly ’02, as well as sculptor Kurt D. Mueller ’02—seem to further a well-worn thesis: commercialism is both cause and symptom of a deep-seated sickness of American—or Western?—culture, one that champions quantity at the cost of quality, efficiency at the cost of beauty...
...Jean K. Webb, director of admissions for Yale Law School, notes that law schools are provided with the last three years of grading data for many colleges—including Harvard—which allows them to account for changes in a particular school’s grading trends...