Word: joes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Breaststroke: 1. Richard Korhammer, Princeton, 1:59.98#; 2. Drew Van Winkle, Penn State, 2:01.77; 3. Steve Wukitch, Penn State, 2:02.31; 9. Joe Zumpano, HARVARD, 2:04.94; 15. Albert Wolf, HARVARD...
...whites in positions of power not hiring minorities to run front offices or be field managers, although that is the principal problem. There are corollary difficulties. Some of the most competent and attractive minority candidates are not interested in jobs they've been offered. Or you have candidates like Joe Morgan, who can't just give up businesses that gross millions of dollars a year to go off and become a general manager somewhere. Also, in the post-Campanis era, any new black manager or general manager will be under a microscope and very likely second- guessed on everything...
...Things have changed for the better, but the struggle is not linear. It's dynamic and ever changing. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis struggled for the legitimacy of black athletic talent. Later, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell and others struggled for access. In the late '60s, athletes like Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Arthur Ashe and Kareem ((Abdul-Jabbar)) fought for recognition of the dignity of the black athlete. Now we're in the struggle for power, and that's the most difficult of all. If we can broaden democratic participation in sports, then there is at least the possibility...
...father always pushed me toward sports. The first thing I can remember is my father buying me a pair of boxing gloves. The Joe Louis phenomenon. It was something that was drilled into me for as long as I could remember. The basic idea was, 'Hey, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson -- they're making endorsements. They got it made.' They've all proved that if you can make it in athletics, you can make it in American society. Here was a way up and out of the degradations that black people suffered. Later, of course, I found...
...Joe Cice '89-90 is co-chair of the Bisexual & Gay & Lesbian Student Association...