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Bailey declined to comment further in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson yesterday, but added that he would be willing to listen to fellow students’ concerns regarding the incident...
...Harvard sweatshirt that I bought during pre-frosh weekend, excited by the Leverett 80’s dance and the Scrabble I played with my host. For the first time since then, I was wearing it out of school spirit, and not because I needed to do laundry. Listen: we have no mascot. We can never have a mascot because our teams are idiotically named after a color. We’re at a serious deficit at these games already. So even though I’m a whining champ, even though there are ants infesting my room...
...Well, there you had it. No wonder nobody wanted to listen to Helling. The owners and players didn't even want to acknowledge that something harmful was going on. A presentation on the benefits of testosterone? Not worse than cigarettes? Helling, though, didn't give up. Each year he would make the same speech at the players association board meeting ... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 ... and each year nothing would happen, except that more and more bodies grew unnaturally bigger and the game became twisted into a perversion, its nuances and subtleties blasted away by the naked obsession with power. Baseball...
...fast-paced, competitive culture, it is hard to admit when we’ve lost our balance. If Harvard wants to make strides towards better mental health, we’ll need to make an institutional commitment to vigilance, and build a community that’s willing to listen. But these changes should not be limited to the administrative and support functions of the University; in addition, we as students will need to remember that when we feel lost, it’s all right to ask for directions...
...Portnuff acknowledges that most iPod and MP3 users don't keep their devices at maximum volume - only about 7% to 24% listen at risky levels. But because most of us can, and are, spending more time listening to music through headphones, there is a real risk of hearing loss for anyone who plugs in. "It's a matter of how high you listen and for how long," he says. Listen for too high and too long, and you may have to replace those headphones with hearing aids in the not-too-distant future...