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While Lewis mainly worries about the impact of recruiting on student-athletes themselves, Summers has primarily commented on the dangers of compromising institutional academics standards.
While she does not think cutting a handful of recruits would spell doom for Bender’s 50-year-old doctrine, McGrath Lewis says a significant reduction would not be in the spirit of pursuing the “mix of excellences” the admissions office has long...
Lewis says that while there may be problems with recruiting in the post-1987 era of coaches combing the nation in search of blue-chip recruits, the process is an important stimulus for diversity.
“[Athletic recruiting] draws people from places and backgrounds and parts of the country where excellence and achievement are much more identified with athletic prowess than with academic prowess,” Lewis says.
McGrath Lewis says the current movement toward the reduction of athletic recruits could perpetuate a stereotype of athletes as “just athletes” which, at Harvard, she insists, they are decidedly not.