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...contrast to Harvard’s lack of concern for student athletes, Columbia University recently took steps to allow student-athletes preference in choosing classes because of their busy schedules. Although such a system would not make sense at Harvard because of our shopping system, by recognizing the particular interests of student-athletes and acting to improve their conditions, Columbia established a model to be followed...
...difference between these two Ivy situations rests in the fact that Harvard’s athletes lack an outlet for their concerns. Columbia and other Ivies have active Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAAC) that regularly meet with college administrators. Harvard has its own SAAC, but for all its good work gauging athletic concerns, it is only connected to the Athletic Department administrators who have no direct authority over College or student life issues. Harvard’s SAAC has the potential to facilitate athletic concerns, but it has yet to reach its full potential as an intermediary between athletes...
...never have allowed such a thing, she seems to ignore the fact that “turning the other cheek” is a reaction explicitly recommended by her own religion. Perhaps we should be applauding Christians who have the wisdom to react this way rather than interpreting their lack of outrage as a sign that Christianity at Harvard is embattled and weak. ALEXANDER B. LEMANN ’06 April...
...committed to Dartmouth,” the coach advised in early October. In December, Dartmouth sent a rejection letter. Stunned, the player’s family sought an explanation from admissions and the coach. Each party blamed the other for “miscommunication.” Such a lack of accountability is built into the current Ivy system. The student was lucky; he scrambled to revive interest from other coaches and eventually got into Yale. In the meantime, he received a crash course in Ivy League ethics—or the lack therof...
...Frustrated over a lack of progress, more than 30 well-dressed, laptop-toting college students from Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College respectfully took over the office entryway of Gov. Bush for more than a day, singing civil rights songs and communicating to supporters via cell phones; they called for the release of the autopsy report and the arrest of the seven guards and attending nurse seen in the video. "A boy has been murdered. A boy has been killed. A boy has been beaten. A boy has been slammed to the ground," said Ramon...