Word: jockã
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...latent tendency—among teaching staffs, fellow classmates and even athletes themselves—to place an individual in either one category or the other but not to allow them to straddle the two. The message is you are either an athlete (“dumb jock??) or a (committed) student, but never both. Early on, perhaps by my second semester, I had come to the realization that to be taken seriously as a student—in essence, to avoid the “dumb jock?? label—meant I would have...
...means a one-sided tale. We, the athletes, are equally to blame for the “dumb jock?? phenomenon. I have witnessed more than a handful of athletes all too ready to adopt the persona. Sadly, we are an introverted community and do not commit ourselves completely to dispelling the stereotype. The “dumb jock?? persona is easy to adopt—it gives the illusion of identity and those outside the athletic community will grant it to you willingly. But in the end the “dumb jock?? graduates...
...many ways, I have spent too much time running away from the “dumb jock?? label. At the very least, I gravitated to activities that seemed to build my persona outside the stereotype. In this way, I spent nearly four years paralyzed by the stereotype. Partially out of fears of falling into the athlete trap, I signed on to a concentration that, due to the rigor of its tutorial program, was almost devoid of athletes. Even writing for The Crimson seemed the “unathletic” thing...
...supposedly “Deconstructing the Jock??, (Dec. 10) Couper Samuelson has unfortunately come up desperately short...
Maybe Samuelson and the other “jock??-hating academes aren’t quite as smart as they think they...